Definition of "disjunctive" [dis•junc•tive]

• Serving to separate or divide. (adjective)
• Grammar Serving to establish a relationship of contrast or opposition. The conjunction but in the phrase poor but comfortable is disjunctive. (adjective)
• Logic Of a proposition that presents two or more alternative terms. (adjective)
• Logic Of a syllogism that contains a disjunction as one premise. (adjective)
• Grammar A disjunctive conjunction. (noun)

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• "This is what I call disjunctive politics, i.e., politics in which choices are made by the disjunctive syllogism: A or B; not A; therefore, B."
• "In French, Louis XIV did not say L’état, c’est je; French has what they call the disjunctive pronoun so they can say C’est moi and Il est plus grand que moi."
• "Sections 3 to 7 of this article attend to the notion of disjunctive and conjunctive predicates."