disjunctive

English

Examples (grammar, regarding pronouns)
English: me, him, them Spanish: mí, ti, sí French: moi, toi

disjunctive (comparative more disjunctive, superlative most disjunctive)

Not connected; separated.
- 1985, John Jones, Dostoevsky, Oxford University Press, USA:
  That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
(grammar, of a personal pronoun) Not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject.
(grammar, of a conjunction) Tending to join (two clauses), but in a way that conveys a disjunct within the conjoined relationship.
Hyponym: concessive

Coordinate term: contrastive

The words "but" and "or" are disjunctive conjunctions.
Tending to disjoin; separating.
Antonym: conjunctive

Coordinate term: contrastive
(music) Relating to disjunct tetrachords.
- 2005, Simon P. Keefe, The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 206:
  […] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
(logic) Of or related to a disjunction.
- 1873, Sir William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, page 235:
  An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.

not connected, separated

grammar, of a personal pronoun: not used in immediate conjunction

tending to disjoin; separating

music: relating to disjunct tetrachords

logic: of or related to a disjunction

disjunctive (plural disjunctives)

(logic) A disjunction.
- L. H. Atwater
  Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
(grammar) A disjunct.
Coordinate term: concessive

disjunction — see disjunction

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dis.i̯uːnkˈtiː.u̯e/, [d̪ɪs̠i̯uːŋkˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /dis.junkˈti.ve/, [d̪isjuŋkˈt̪iːve]

disjūnctīve