Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Serving to connect, as a conjunction; copulative or conjunctive.
  • adjective Connected by a conjunction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Connecting by means of conjunctions or other connectives; pertaining to such connection: as, syndetic arrangement: opposed to asyndetic.

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

  • adjective Connecting; conjunctive

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

  • adjective grammar Connected by a conjunction.
  • adjective grammar Serving to connect; conjunctive.

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

  • adjective connected by a conjunction

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek sundetikos, from sundetos, bound together, from sundein, to bind together : sun-, syn- + dein, to bind.]

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Examples

  • My particular area of expertise happens to be syndetic security.

    Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

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