Disjunctive comes to us from disjunctus, the past participle of the Latin verb disjungere, meaning "to disjoin," and it is commonly used to describe things marked by breaks or separation, as in …

DISJUNCTIVE definition: 1. lacking any clear connection: 2. expressing a choice between two or more things, where only one…. Learn more.

DISJUNCTIVE definition: serving or tending to disjoin; separating; dividing; distinguishing. See examples of disjunctive used in a sentence.

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Define disjunctive. disjunctive synonyms, disjunctive pronunciation, disjunctive translation, English dictionary definition of disjunctive. adj. 1. Serving to separate or divide.

There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the word disjunctive, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

syntactically setting two or more expressions in opposition to each other, as but in poor but happy, or expressing an alternative, as or in this or that. not syntactically dependent upon some …

adjective a proposition in which the parts are connected by disjunctive conjunctions, specifying that one of two or more propositions may hold, but that no two propositions may hold at the …

“Or” and “but” are disjunctives.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English dis‧junc‧tive /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktɪv/ adjective technical a disjunctive conjunction expresses a choice or opposition between two ideas.