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DISJUNCTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Serving or tending to divide or separate
Classified under:
Similar:
adversative; oppositive (expressing antithesis or opposition)
alternative (necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities)
contrastive (syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence)
divisional (serving to divide or marking a division)
partitive; separative (serving to separate or divide into parts)
separative ((used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it)
Antonym:
conjunctive (serving or tending to connect)
Derivation:
disjoin (become separated, disconnected or disjoint)
disjoin (make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of)
