FromMiddle Englishdisjunctief,disjunctyf, fromMiddle Frenchdisjunctif andLatindisjunctīvus(“placed in opposition”).
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disjunctive (comparativemoredisjunctive,superlativemostdisjunctive)
- Notconnected;separated.
1985, John Jones,Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA:That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, itsdisjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
- (grammar, of apersonal pronoun) Not used in immediateconjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
- (grammar, of aconjunction) Tending tojoin (two clauses), but in a way that conveys adisjunct within the conjoined relationship.
- Hyponym:concessive
- Coordinate term:contrastive
The words "but" and "or" aredisjunctive conjunctions.
- Tending todisjoin; separating.
- Antonym:conjunctive
- Coordinate term:contrastive
- (music) Relating todisjuncttetrachords.
2005, Simon P. Keefe,The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press,→ISBN, page206:[…] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, betweendisjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
- (logic) Of or related to adisjunction.
1873, Sir William Hamilton,Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page235:An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and adisjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many puredisjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.
grammar, of a personal pronoun: not used in immediate conjunction
tending to disjoin; separating
music: relating to disjunct tetrachords
logic: of or related to a disjunction
disjunctive (pluraldisjunctives)
- (logic) Adisjunction.
- L. H. Atwater
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
- (grammar) Adisjunct.
- Coordinate term:concessive
disjūnctīve
- vocativemasculinesingular ofdisjūnctīvus
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