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conjunctive Definition

con·junc·tive (kən juŋk′tiv)

adjective

  1. serving to join together; connective
  2. united; combined; joint
  3. Gram.: said of unstressed forms of personal, reflexive, or reciprocal pronouns in some Romance languages (Ex.: me in French il me faut)
    1. used as a conjunction the conjunctive adverb “consequently”
    2. connecting both the meaning and the construction of sentence elements “and” and “moreover” are conjunctive
    3. always used in conjunction with the verb

Etymology: ME conjunctif < L conjunctivus, connective (in LL, subjunc. mood) < conjunctus: see conjoint

noun

Gram. a conjunctive word; esp., a conjunction

conjunctive Related Forms
con·junc′·tively adverb
conjunctive Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • categorization: A MAYBE together with a Typical YES would be more likely to generate a positive conjunctive categorization than a MAYBE with an Atypical YES.
  • predicate: Sections 3 to 7 of this article attend to the notion of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates.
  • concept: The first analysis considered the question of whether subjects were consistent in their categorization of conjunctive concepts.
  • form: For formulas already expressed in standard logic notation, there is a systematic two-step procedure for transforming them into conjunctive normal form.
  • membership: According to the composite prototype model, subjects decide about conjunctive membership by a similarity computation across the features of a stimulus.
  • category: This conjunction fallacy was paralleled by the finding of overextension of conjunctive categories by Hampton ( 1988, 1996 ).