coordinative

1. 1.

   serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction

   “`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'”

   Synonymscoordinating

   grammar

Questions about coordinative

What does coordinative mean?

coordinative means "serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction".

How many syllables are in coordinative?

coordinative has 4 syllables: coor-di-na-tive. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for coordinative?

Close synonyms include coordinating. 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 coordinative a common word?

coordinative 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.