conjunctive

1. 1.

   serving or tending to connect

   Antonymsdisjunctive

   Similarcopulativeconnective
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsconcertedconjunctcooperative

   Similarjoint

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsconjunctionconnectivecontinuative

   Broaderfunction word

   Narrowercoordinating conjunctionsubordinating conjunction

Other forms of conjunctive

plural

conjunctives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conjunctive

What does conjunctive mean?

conjunctive means "serving or tending to connect". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conjunctive?

conjunctive has 3 syllables: con-junc-tive. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for conjunctive?

Close synonyms include concerted, conjunct, cooperative, conjunction, connective. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of conjunctive?

The recorded antonyms are disjunctive.

Is conjunctive a common word?

conjunctive 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.