Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Joining; having the quality of joining.
  • noun One who or that which is joined.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.
  • noun One who, or that which, is joined.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective forming an adjunct
  • adjective additional; neither basic nor primary: "adjunctive therapy"
  • adjective logic the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
  • noun grammar a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
  • noun manufacturing a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective joining; forming an adjunct

Etymologies

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adjunct +‎ -ive

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