DISJUNCTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disjunctive mean? 

• DISJUNCTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective DISJUNCTIVE has 1 sense:

1. serving or tending to divide or separate

  Familiarity information: DISJUNCTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISJUNCTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving or tending to divide or separate

Similar:

adversative; oppositive (expressing antithesis or opposition)

alternative (necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities)

contrastive (syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence)

divisional (serving to divide or marking a division)

partitive; separative (serving to separate or divide into parts)

separative ((used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it)

Antonym:

conjunctive (serving or tending to connect)

Derivation:

disjoin (become separated, disconnected or disjoint)

disjoin (make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of)