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conjunctive definition

con·junc·tive (kən juŋktiv)

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

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