subordinative

1. 1.

   serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause

   “`when' in `I will come when I can' is a subordinating conjunction”

   Synonymssubordinating

   grammar

Questions about subordinative

What does subordinative mean?

subordinative means "serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause".

How many syllables are in subordinative?

subordinative has 5 syllables: su-bor-di-na-tive. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for subordinative?

Close synonyms include subordinating. 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 subordinative a common word?

subordinative 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.