Adjective: connective ku'nek-tiv
- Connecting or tending to connect
"connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"
- An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words, phrases, clauses or sentences
"The word 'and' is a common connective";
- conjunction, conjunctive, continuative
- Something that connects things together
"The metal connective joined the two pipes";
- connection, connexion [Brit], connector, connecter
Derived forms: connectives
See also: conjunctive
Type of: closed-class word, function word, functor, instrumentality, instrumentation, means
Encyclopedia: Connective