conjunctive

From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋktɪv

conjunctive (not comparable)

1. Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.

   Antonym: disjunctive

2. Connected: being joined, united, connected.

   Synonym: conjunct

   Antonyms: disjunctive, disjunct

4. (astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
6. (grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
8. (grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
10. (grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé

    Antonym: disjunctive

12. (grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

    Synonym: subjunctive

14. (logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.

    Antonym: disjunctive

16. (obsolete) Closely united.
    • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii], line 15:

      She is so conjunctive to my life and soul / That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, / I could not but by her.

conjunctive (plural conjunctives)

1. (grammar) A conjunction.
2. (grammar) The subjunctive.
3. (logic) A conjunction.

• conjunctional
• conjunctiva

conjūnctīve

1. vocative masculine singular of conjūnctīvus