continuative

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsconjunctionconjunctiveconnective

   Broaderfunction word

   Narrowercoordinating conjunctionsubordinating conjunction

Other forms of continuative

plural

continuatives·

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 continuative

What does continuative mean?

continuative means "an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences".

How many syllables are in continuative?

continuative has 5 syllables: con-ti-nu-a-tive. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for continuative?

Close synonyms include conjunction, conjunctive, 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.

Is continuative a common word?

continuative 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.