- connective - connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"; "conjunctive tissue in plants"
Antonym: disjunctive (indirect, via conjunctive)
- conjunction, conjunctive, connective - an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
--1 is a kind of function word, closed-class word
--1 has particulars:coordinating conjunction; subordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction - connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective - an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers"
--2 is a kind of instrumentality, instrumentation
--2 has particulars: