conjunctive

From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.

conjunctive (not comparable)

1. (astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).
2. (grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
3. (grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
4. (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 sé
5. (grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
6. (logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
7. (obsolete) Closely united.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, IV. vii. 15:

     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.

• (subjunctive): subjunctive

• (of a personal pronoun): disjunctive
• (of logical conjunction): disjunctive

• conjunct
• conjunction

conjunctive (plural conjunctives)

1. (grammar) A conjunction.
2. (logic) A conjunction.

• conjunctional
• conjunctiva

conjunctīve

1. vocative masculine singular of conjunctīvus