conjunctive
/kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv/
conjunctive adjective: connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
Adjective
conjunctive (not comparable)
- Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
- Antonyms:
- disjunctive
- Connected: being joined, united, connected.
- Synonyms:
- conjunct
- Antonyms:
- disjunctive, disjunct
- Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
- Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
- Relating to the conjunctive mood.
- Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
- Antonyms:
- disjunctive
- Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
- Synonyms:
- subjunctive
- Of or relating to logical conjunction.
- Antonyms:
- disjunctive
- Closely united.
- She is so conjunctive to my life and soul / That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, / I could not but by her.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
Noun
conjunctive (plural conjunctives)
- A conjunction.
- The subjunctive.
- A conjunction.
conjunctive meaning in Hindi and Tamil
conjunctive in Hindi
- conjunctive
- संयोजक sãyojak
conjunctive in Tamil
- இணையம்
Synonyms of conjunctive
Antonyms
Forms of conjunctive
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Origin of conjunctive
From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.
Words formed from conjunctive
- canonical conjunctive normal form
- conjunctive adjunct
- conjunctive adverb
- conjunctive approach
- conjunctive archaeology
- conjunctive conjunction
- conjunctive error
- conjunctive eye movement
- conjunctive grammar
- conjunctive illocutionary act
- conjunctively
- conjunctive management
- conjunctive membrane
- conjunctive mode
- conjunctive mood
- conjunctiveness
- conjunctive normal form
- conjunctive operation
- conjunctive participle
- conjunctive symbiosis
- conjunctive tissue
- conjunctive tunic
- conjunctive use
- conjunctive verb
- conjunctivism
- conjunctivist
- conjunctivity
- non-conjunctive
- nonconjunctive
- subconjunctively
- unconjunctive
Phrases with conjunctive
Words that rhyme with conjunctive
Questions about conjunctive
- What does conjunctive mean?
- Conjunctive means connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
- What is conjunctive in Hindi?
- Conjunctive in Hindi is संयोजक (sãyojak). See Conjunctive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conjunctive?
- Conjunctive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce conjunctive?
- Conjunctive is pronounced /kənˈdʒʌŋktɪv/.
Words near conjunctive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conjunctive (page history and authors); संयोजक (Hindi) (page history and authors); conjunctive (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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