disjunctive
Meaning of disjunctive
- lacking connection or consistency.
the novel's disjunctive detail
- (of a conjunction) expressing a choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities, for example or in she asked if he was going or staying.
noun
a disjunctive conjunction or other word.
late Middle English (in disjunctive (sense 2 of the adjective)): from Latin disjunctivus, from disjunct- ‘disjoined’ (see disjunct).
Information about disjunctive
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Hyphenation of disjunctive
dis-junc-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- disjunctive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of disjunctive
- Spanish: disyuntiva, disyuntivo
- Italian: disgiuntivo
Words that rhyme with disjunctive
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