disjunctiveadjective
/dɪsˈdʒʌŋk.tɪv//dɪsˈdʒʌŋk.tɪv/disjunctive adjective (DISCONNECTED)
lacking any clear connection:
The play consists of a series of brief, disjunctive scenes.
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- For those familiar with only one or two pieces, the medley may sound more like a series of disjunctive sections.
- The incorporation of disjunctive elements is by now a cliché of architectural renovations.
- The company's non-compliance clearly resulted from a disjunctive organisational structure.
- The poems, always difficult, got more difficult in the mid-1980s and have remained so: disjunctive and unpredictable, often zany.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Different and difference
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a whole new ballgame idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative
- another
- clash
- contrary
- differential
- distinctive
- distorted
- diverge
- divergence
- divers
- divide
- permutation
- refreshing
- several
- step
- sundry
- tangential
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disjunctive adjective (GRAMMAR)
specialized language expressing a choice between two or more things, where only one is possible:
Technically speaking, the question is not disjunctive.
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- "And" is normally read conjunctively, "or" is normally read disjunctively, but in some circumstances the context may require "and" to be disjunctive or "or" to be conjunctive.
- We can represent a binary constraint by means of a small number of disjunctive relations.
- Because the statute uses the disjunctive "or", the court must separately evaluate each of the four factual scenarios.
- These five reasons are disjunctive so that the party serving the notice can rely on any one of them.
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Linguistics: connecting words which express a contrast
- again
- any way you slice it idiom
- at any rate idiom
- at least idiom
- best
- but
- given
- hand
- however
- least
- might
- never
- nevertheless
- no matter what, when, why, etc. idiom
- rate
- seeing (that)
- slice
- tooth
- when
- whereas
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