CONJUNCTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjunctive mean? 

• CONJUNCTIVE (noun)
  The noun CONJUNCTIVE has 1 sense:

1. an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

  Familiarity information: CONJUNCTIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• CONJUNCTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective CONJUNCTIVE has 2 senses:

1. serving or tending to connect

2. involving the joint activity of two or more

  Familiarity information: CONJUNCTIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJUNCTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conjunction; conjunctive; connective; continuative

Hypernyms ("conjunctive" is a kind of...):

closed-class word; function word (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjunctive"):

coordinating conjunction (a conjunction (like 'and' or 'or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents)

subordinate conjunction; subordinating conjunction (a conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause)

• CONJUNCTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving or tending to connect

Similar:

copulative (syntactically connecting sentences or elements of a sentence)

connective (connecting or tending to connect)

Antonym:

disjunctive (serving or tending to divide or separate)

Derivation:

conjoin (make contact or come together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Involving the joint activity of two or more

Synonyms:

concerted; conjunct; conjunctive; cooperative

Context example:

joint military activities

Similar:

joint (united or combined)

 Context examples 

Cerebellar long-term depression (LTD), thought to be a molecular and cellular basis for cerebellar learning, is a process involving a decrease in the synaptic strength between parallel fiber (PF) and Purkinje cells (PCs) induced by the conjunctive activation of PFs and climbing fiber (CF).

(Long-Term Depression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)