disjunctive

EnglishEdit

Examples (grammar)
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.
Tending to disjoin; separating.
(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.