About The Word Disjunctive
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Disjunctive
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What's The Definition Of Disjunctive?
[adj] serving or tending to divide or separate
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disjunctive: adversative | alternative | contrastive | dividing | divisional | intervening | mutually exclusive | oppositive | partitive | separative Related Terms | Find terms related to Disjunctive: ablative | adjectival | adjective | adverb | adverbial | adversative conjunction | alternative | attributive | biodegradable | broken | broken off | chopped-off | choppy | conjunction | conjunctive adverb | coordinating conjunction | copulative | copulative conjunction | correlative conjunction | corrosive | decomposable | decomposing | decousu | degradable | dilapidated | disconnected | discontinued | discontinuous | discrete | discretional | disintegrable | disintegrated | disintegrating | disintegrative | disjunctive conjunction | disruptive | dividing | elective | episodic | erosive | exclamatory noun | fitful | form class | form word | function class | gerundive | herky-jerky | incoherent | interjection | intermittent | interrupted | irregular | jagged | jerky | moldering | noncontinuous | nonlinear | nonsequential | nonserial | nonuniform | optional | parenthetic | part of speech | participle | particle | parting | past participle | patchy | perfect participle | preposition | present participle | ravaged | resolvent | ruinous | scrappy | separating | separative | snatchy | solvent | spasmodic | spotty | subordinating conjunction | suspended | unconnected | unjoined | unsuccessive | verbal adjective | volitional | voluntary | worn See Also | Disjunctive In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*junc"tive\, a. [L. disjunctivus: cf. F.
disjonctif.]
1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
2. (Mus.) Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. ``Disjunctive
notes.'' --Moore (Encyc. of Music).
{Disjunctive conjunction} (Gram.), one connecting
grammatically two words or clauses, expressing at the same
time an opposition or separation inherent in the notions
or thoughts; as, either, or, neither, nor, but, although,
except, lest, etc.
{Disjunctive proposition}, one in which the parts are
connected by disjunctive conjunctions; as it is either day
or night.
{Disjunctive syllogism} (Logic), one in which the major
proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a
circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle,
therefore it moves in an ellipse.
\Dis*junc"tive\, n. (a) (Gram.) A disjunctive conjunction. (b) (Logic) A disjunctive proposition. |
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