Disjunctive vs Conjunctive - What's the difference?
disjunctive | conjunctive |
Not connected; separated.
(grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject. For example:
Tending to disjoin; separating.
(music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
* Moore (Encyc. of Music)
(logic) A disjunction.
* L. H. Atwater
(astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).
(grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
(grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
(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 ''
(grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
(obsolete) Closely united.
* 1599 , , IV. vii. 15:
Conjunctive is a antonym of disjunctive.
In lang=en terms the difference between disjunctive and conjunctive
is that disjunctive is a disjunction while conjunctive is of or relating to logical conjunction.As a noun disjunctive
is a disjunction.disjunctive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- English: me, him, them
- French: moi, toi
- Irish:
- Disjunctive notes.
Antonyms
* conjunctiveNoun
(en noun)- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
conjunctive
English
Adjective
(-)- 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.