Grammar and Logic. Of a conjunction: indicating an alternative; expressing opposition or antithesis; adversative. Also (of a proposition, sentence…

Having the power or effect of separating. Grammar and Logic. A general designation for adversative (or †discretive) and disjunctive conjunctions…

Grammar and Logic. Of a conjunction: indicating an alternative; expressing opposition or antithesis; adversative. Also of a proposition, axiom…

Grammar. Applied to conjunctions that express an alternative or imply some kind of adversative relation between the clauses which they…

Having the function or power of disconnecting; disjunctive, disengaging. Also: characterized by lack of connection or cohesion; disconnected.

Grammar. Of conjunctions: Alternative, disjunctive.