Thesaurus: conjunctive

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1. a. Serving to unite; connecting together.
2. a. Closely united.
3. adj. serving or tending to connect
4. adj. involving the joint activity of two or more
5. n. an word/uninflected">uninflected word/function">function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
6. 1. Serving to unite; connecting together. 2. Closely united. [Obs.] Shak. Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. -- Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase.
7. j:100 a. serving or tending to connect