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
Origin:
ME conjunctif < L conjunctivus, connective (in LL, subjunc. mood) < conjunctus: see conjoint
noun
Gram. a conjunctive word; esp., a conjunction