We found 3 definitions of disjunctives from 2 different sources.
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disjunctive - serving or tending to divide or separate | ||
conjunctive serving or tending to connect | ||
adversative, oppositive expressing antithesis or opposition; "the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'" | ||
alternative necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "alternative possibilities were neutrality or war" | ||
contrastive syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function" | ||
divisional constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit" | ||
partitive, separative serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" |