Adjunctive vs. Adjunct — What's the Difference?

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.

A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.

A person associated with another in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity.

(Grammar) A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.

(Grammar) A clause or phrase added to a sentence that, while not essential to the sentence's structure, amplifies its meaning, such as for several hours in We waited for several hours.

(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.

(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity

Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity

Attached to a faculty or staff in a temporary or auxiliary capacity

Forming an adjunct.

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Additional; neither basic nor primary.

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

(logic) The property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a.

(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

(grammar) A connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction.

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

(manufacturing) A substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives.".

(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

Joining; having the quality of joining; forming an adjunct.

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.

One who, or that which, is joined.

A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

Joining; forming an adjunct

(rhetoric) Symploce.

(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Connected in a subordinate function.

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Conjoined; attending; consequent.

Something joined or added to another thing, but not essentially a part of it.

A person joined to another in some duty or service; a colleague; an associate.

A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in italics are the adjunct or adjuncts of "History."

A quality or property of the body or the mind, whether natural or acquired; as, color, in the body, judgment in the mind.

Something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

A construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical

Relating to something that is added but is not essential;

Of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another