CONJUNCTIVE

conjunctive

(adjective) serving or tending to connect

concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative

(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more; “concerted action”; “the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind”; “the conjunctive focus of political opposition”; “a cooperative effort”; “a united effort”; “joint military activities”

conjunction, conjunctive, connective, continuative

(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

conjunctive (not comparable)

(astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).

(grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).

(grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.

(grammar) 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

(grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.

(obsolete) Closely united.

Synonyms

• (subjunctive): subjunctive

Antonyms

• (of a personal pronoun): disjunctive

• (of logical conjunction): disjunctive

Noun

conjunctive (plural conjunctives)

(grammar) A conjunction.

(logic) A conjunction.

Source: Wiktionary

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Con*junc"tive, a. Etym: [L. conjunctivus.]

1. Serving to unite; connecting together.

2. Closely united. [Obs.] Shak. Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood.

– Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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