disjunctive

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=junc=tive

OXFORD DICTIONARY

disjunctive, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 involving separation; disjoining.
2 Gram. (esp. of a conjunction) expressing a choice between two words etc., e.g. or in asked if he was going or staying (cf. COPULATIVE).
3 Logic (of a proposition) expressing alternatives.
--n.
1 Gram. a disjunctive conjunction or other word.
2 Logic a disjunctive proposition.

Derivative

disjunctively adv.

Etymology

ME f. L disjunctivus (as DISJOIN)

THESAURUS

disjunctive

ablative, adjectival, adjective, adverb, adverbial, adversative conjunction, alternative, attributive, biodegradable, broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, conjunction, conjunctive adverb, coordinating conjunction, copulative, copulative conjunction, correlative conjunction, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, decousu, degradable, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, discretional, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive conjunction, disruptive, dividing, elective, episodic, erosive, exclamatory noun, fitful, form class, form word, function class, gerundive, herky-jerky, incoherent, interjection, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, jagged, jerky, moldering, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial, nonuniform, optional, parenthetic, part of speech, participle, particle, parting, past participle, patchy, perfect participle, preposition, present participle, ravaged, resolvent, ruinous, scrappy, separating, separative, snatchy, solvent, spasmodic, spotty, subordinating conjunction, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive, verbal adjective, volitional, voluntary, worn

ROGET THESAURUS

disjunctive

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Discontinuity

N discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.