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adjunctive

adjunctive adjective: forming an adjunct.

Adjective

adjunctive (not comparable)

  1. Forming an adjunct.
    1. Forming a noun adjunct.
  2. Additional; neither basic nor primary.
    • adjunctive therapy
  3. The property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a.

Noun

adjunctive (plural adjunctives)

  1. A connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction.
  2. A substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives.".

adjunctive meaning in Tamil

adjunctive in Tamil

துணைச் சேர்மம், துணையுறுப்பு

Forms of adjunctive

pluraladjunctives

Origin of adjunctive

From adjunct + -ive.

Words formed from adjunctive

Questions about adjunctive

What does adjunctive mean?
Adjunctive means forming an adjunct.
What is adjunctive in Tamil?
Adjunctive in Tamil is துணைச் சேர்மம், துணையுறுப்பு. See Adjunctive meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adjunctive?
Adjunctive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near adjunctive in the dictionary

  1. adjuncthood
  2. adjunctification
  3. adjuncting
  4. adjunction
  5. adjunctions
  6. adjunctive
  7. adjunctively
  8. adjunctiveness
  9. adjunctives
  10. adjunctivity
  11. adjunctly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adjunctive (page history and authors); adjunctive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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