ADJECTIVE | all | disjunctive | serving or tending to divide or separate |
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Meaning | Serving or tending to divide or separate. | |
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Narrower | adversative, oppositive | Expressing antithesis or opposition |
alternative | necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | |
contrastive | syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | |
divisional | Serving to divide or marking a division / division | |
partitive, separative | Serving to separate or divide into parts | |
separative | (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it | |
Opposite | conjunctive | Serving or tending to connect |
Spanish | disyuntivo | |
Verbs | disjoin | become separated, disconnected or disjoint |
disjoin | make disjoint, separated, or disconnected |
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