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Adjunctive vs Adjective - What's the difference?

adjunctive | adjective |

In context|grammar|lang=en terms the difference between adjunctive and adjective

is that adjunctive is (grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction while adjective is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

As adjectives the difference between adjunctive and adjective

is that adjunctive is forming an adjunct while adjective is (obsolete) incapable of independent function.

As nouns the difference between adjunctive and adjective

is that adjunctive is (grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction while adjective is (grammar) a word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

As a verb adjective is

to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

adjunctive

English

Adjective

(-)
  • forming an adjunct
  • additional; neither basic nor primary: "adjunctive therapy"
  • (logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a

    • Derived terms

    * adjunctivity * adjunctiveness * adjunctively * adjunctive behavior

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
  • (manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
    • ----

    adjective

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Incapable of independent function.
  • * 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)
    • In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.
  • (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
  • (legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
  • * Macaulay
    • The whole English law, substantive and adjective .
  • (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

    • Synonyms

    * (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural

    Antonyms

    * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive

    Derived terms

    * adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia adjective)
  • (grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.
    • The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .
  • (obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
    • (Fuller)

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (adjectiv)
  • To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
  • * Tooke
    • Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.
  • * 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)
    • In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages