adversative conjunction

1. 1.

   the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings

   Broaderconjunction

Questions about adversative conjunction

What does adversative conjunction mean?

adversative conjunction means "the conjunctive relation of units that expresses the opposition of their meanings".

Is adversative conjunction a common word?

adversative conjunction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.