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conjunctive definition
con·junc·tive (kən juŋk′tiv)
adjective
- serving to join together; connective
- united; combined; joint
- Gram.: said of unstressed forms of personal, reflexive, or reciprocal pronouns in some Romance languages (Ex.: me in French il me faut)
- used as a conjunction the conjunctive adverb “consequently”
- connecting both the meaning and the construction of sentence elements “and” and “moreover” are conjunctive
- 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
Related Forms:
- conjunctively con·junc′·tively adverb
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