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Definition: Conjunctive |
ConjunctiveAdjective1. Serving or tending to connect. 2. Involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities". Noun1. An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "conjunctive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, adjective. [Latin expression conjunctivus.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ConjunctiveSynonyms: combined (adj), concerted (adj), conjunct (adj), cooperative (adj), united (adj), conjunction (n), connective (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: disjunctive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circumstance | Occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency; (event). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Conjunctive |
| English words defined with "conjunctive": adversative conjunction ♦ But and if ♦ combined, concerted, conjunct, Conjunctiveness, Connection tissue, cooperative, copulative conjunction ♦ disjunctive conjunction ♦ Syndetical ♦ united. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "conjunctive": Conjunctive Normal Form. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "conjunctive": Ere. (references) |
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| "Conjunctive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conjunctive" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conjunctive": conjunctive billing ♦ conjunctive irrigation planning ♦ conjunctive mood ♦ conjunctive normal form ♦ conjunctive subgoals ♦ conjunctive symbiosis ♦ conjunctive tissue ♦ conjunctive unit. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "conjunctive": conjunctive-type. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adverb conjunctive | 14 |
conjunctive | 9 |
conjunctive heart failure | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conjunctive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lidhëzor, lidhës (binding, connection, connective, connexion, solder, syndetic, tier), bashkërenditës. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حرف عطف (conjunction, connective), عاطف (sympathetic, understanding), رابط (attachment, camp, connective, copula, copulative, couple, give voice to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съюзен (allied, confederate, federal, syndetic), съединителен (connective, syndetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spojený (allied, bound up with, combined, concerted, confederate, conjunct, connected, coupled, United). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | UDK-forbindelsestegn (conjunctive signs), konjunktivt delmål (conjunctive subgoals), klausulform (clause form, conjunctive normal form), gruppeafregning (conjunctive billing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conjunctieve normaalvorm (clause form, conjunctive normal form), conjunctieneuron (conjunctive unit), conjunctie van subdoelen (conjunctive subgoals), clause-vorm (clause form, conjunctive normal form), verbindingsweefsel (conjunctive tissue), UDC-verbindingssymbolen (conjunctive signs), samengestelde subdoelen (conjunctive subgoals), gelijktijdige verrekening (conjunctive billing), bevloeiingsplan met oppervlakte-en grondwater (conjunctive irrigation planning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhdistyvät alitavoitteet (conjunctive subgoals), yhdistävä yksikkö (conjunctive unit), pinta-ja pohjavesivarojen kastelukäytön yhteissuunnittelu (conjunctive irrigation planning), lausemuoto (clause form, conjunctive normal form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conjonctif (connective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verbindend (agglutinating, aligning, associational, bandaging, conglomerating, conjoining, conjunctively, connecting, connective, joining, linking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνδετικόσ (connecting, connective, copular, copulative, ligamentous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötõszó (conjunction), kötõmód, kötõ-, összekötõ (connective, messenger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | congiuntivo (subjunctive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 連"形 (conjunctive form, continuative form), 接続助詞 (conjunctive particle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せつぞくじょし (conjunctive particle), れ"ようけい (conjunctive form, continuative form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | conastagh (federal, federalist, federate, relative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onjunctivecay conjuntivo (subjunctive), conjunção (conjunction), subjuntivo (subjunctive). (various references) conjunctiv, de legãturã. (various references) связывающий (communicant, liaison, tying), союзный (allied, confederate, federal, syndetic). (various references) koji vezuje. (various references) conjuntivo, conjunción (conjunction), de conjunción. (various references) förbindande, binde-. (various references) birleştiren (copulative), bağlayan (binding, inceptive), bağlaç görevi yapan, bağlaç görevi gören kip. (various references) умовний спосіб (subjunctive), сполучник (conjunction), з'"днувальний (connecting, connective), зв'язуючий (binding). (various references) để nối tiếp (continuative), để liên kết (annectent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conjunctive": conjunctively, conjunctives. (additional references) | |
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"Conjunctive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comjunctive, conjuctiv, conjuctive, conjunctival. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "conjunctive" (pronounced 'Con*junc"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, festive, fictive, Flative, Fotive, furtive, inactive, inattentive, instinctive, introspective, irrespective, irruptive, Magnetomotive, Miscreative, Native, Obstupefactive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-j-n-n-o-t-u-v" | |
-3 letters: coinvent, conjunct, continue, convince, junction. | |
-4 letters: conceit, concent, connect, connive, convect, convent, convict, unction, unjoint, unvoice. | |
-5 letters: conine, enjoin, inject, intone, invent, jounce, nocent, noetic, notice, novice, nuncio, outvie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-j-n-n-o-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: conjunctivae, conjunctives. | |
+2 letters: conjunctively. | |
+5 letters: conjunctivitises. | |
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