Conjunctive vs. Adjunctive — What's the Difference?

Relating to or forming a connection or combination of things

Something attached to another in a dependent or subordinate position.

Of the nature of or relating to a conjunction.

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

A word or expression acting as a conjunction.

(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.

Joining; connective.

(Logic) A nonessential attribute of a thing.

Joined together; combined

Added or connected in a subordinate or auxiliary capacity

Of, relating to, or being a conjunction.

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

Serving to connect elements of meaning and construction within sentences, as and and since, or between sentences, as therefore.

Forming an adjunct.

A connective word, especially a conjunction or conjunctive adverb.

Additional; neither basic nor primary.

Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).

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

(grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).

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

(grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.

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

(grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé

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

Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.

One who, or that which, is joined.

(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.

Joining; forming an adjunct

(obsolete) Closely united.

(grammar) A conjunction.

(logic) A conjunction.

Serving to unite; connecting together.

Closely united.

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

Serving or tending to connect

Involving the joint activity of two or more;