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disjunctive
[dis-juhngk-tiv]
adjective
serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing.
Grammar.
syntactically setting two or more expressions in opposition to each other, as but in poor but happy, or expressing an alternative, as or in this or that.
not syntactically dependent upon some particular expression.
Logic.
characterizing propositions that are disjunctions.
(of a syllogism) containing at least one disjunctive proposition as a premise.
noun
a statement, course of action, etc., involving alternatives.
Logic.disjunction.
Grammar.a disjunctive word.
disjunctive
/ ɪˈʌŋɪ /
adjective
serving to disconnect or separate
grammar
denoting a word, esp a conjunction, that serves to express opposition or contrast: but in the sentence She was poor but she was honest
denoting an inflection of pronouns in some languages that is used alone or after a preposition, such as moi in French
Also: alternative.logic relating to, characterized by, or containing disjunction
noun
grammar
a disjunctive word, esp a conjunction
a disjunctive pronoun
logic a disjunctive proposition; disjunction
Other Word Forms
- disjunctively adverb
- nondisjunctive adjective
- nondisjunctively adverb
- 徱ˈܲԳپ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of disjunctive1
Example Sentences
Most of the later paintings come out of his pioneering silk-screen paintings from the early 1960s, with their disjunctive patchwork of magazine cutouts and his own photographs.
After finishing its last page, he is heard to murmur: “So elementary … inchoate … a disjunctive … patchwork.”
Liberman began his career at the pioneering French photo magazine Vu, and later he brought to Vogue a disjunctive, highly graphic style that drew from the photomontages of Russian Constructivism.
Like “Mulholland Drive,” a clear touchstone, “Nina Wu” grows increasingly disjunctive as beguiling, eerily sensual incursions from a jealous rival rattle the actress.
And in their scenes alone together, she and Mr. Oreskes create a sadly credible portrait of a disjunctive marriage.
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