请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 disjunctive
释义

disjunctiveadjective

/dɪsˈdʒʌŋk.tɪv//dɪsˈdʒʌŋk.tɪv/

disjunctive adjective (DISCONNECTED)

lacking any clear connection:

The play consists of a series of brief, disjunctive scenes.

More examples

  • 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

See more results »

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.

More examples

  • "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.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

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

See more results »

Compare

conjunctive
随便看

 

英语词典包含110679条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 18:47:02