connective
/kəˈnɛktɪv/
connective adjective: serving or tending to connect; connecting.
Adjective
connective (not comparable)
- Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
- Society is doomed to an ignominious death as soon as the connective tissue of institutions and the ossified material of officialdom with its rank growth of unyielding red tape and formalism begin to spread, choking, and strangling the free, personal life of the individual.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress
- Synonyms:
- syndetic
Noun
connective (plural connectives)
- That which connects.
- A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
- Condition iii) ensures that the truth-rules for the sentential connectives and quantifiers are satisfied within one and the same valuation νₛ.2008 October 8, Holger Andreas, “Another Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Terms”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI
- A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
- The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
- A connective tissue.
connective meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
connective in Tamil
- தொடுப்பு, இணைப்பு, இணைநரம்பு, தொடுக்கின்ற
connective in Urdu
- رابط, واصل
connective in Bengali
- সংযোগমূলক
connective in Telugu
- కనెక్టివ్
More languagesFewer languages
- connective in Malayalam
- ബന്ധിപ്പിക്കാൻ കഴിവുളള, ബന്ധിപ്പിക്കുന്ന, ചേർക്കുന്ന, അടുപ്പിക്കുന്ന
- connective in Punjabi
- ਕੁਨੈਕਟਿਵ, ਕਨੈਕਟਿਵ
- connective in Nepali
- कनेक्टिभ
Examples of connective in a sentence
- The skeleton of echinoderms is made of ossicles, linked to each other via muscles and connective tissue.
- The logical connective OR can be seen to correspond to the logical constant "unless".
- Cmavo are connective, syncategorematic words. They are roughly comparable to English conjunctions, prepositions, articles, numerals, and some adverbs.
Synonyms of connective
Forms of connective
| plural | connectives |
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Origin of connective
For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
Words formed from connective
Phrases with connective
Words that rhyme with connective
- projective
- subjective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- defective
- directive
- respective
- selective
- injective
28 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- affective
- bijective
- corrective
- erective
- ineffective
- inflective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about connective
- What does connective mean?
- Connective means serving or tending to connect; connecting.
- What is connective in Tamil?
- Connective in Tamil is தொடுப்பு, இணைப்பு, இணைநரம்பு. See Connective meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is connective?
- Connective can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce connective?
- Connective is pronounced /kəˈnɛktɪv/.
Words near connective in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: connective (page history and authors); connective (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); connective (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); connective (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); connective (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); connective (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); connective (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); connective (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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