Synonyms: disjunctive
Definition: serving or tending to divide or separate
Similar words: adversative, oppositive
Definition: expressing antithesis or opposition
Usage: the adversative conjunction `but' in `poor but happy'
Similar words: alternative
Definition: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
Usage: alternative possibilities were neutrality or war
Similar words: contrastive
Definition: syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
Usage: disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function
Similar words: divisional
Definition: serving to divide or marking a division
Usage: the divisional line between two states
Similar words: separative, partitive
Definition: serving to separate or divide into parts
Usage: partitive tendencies in education; the uniting influence was stronger than the separative
Similar words: separative
Definition: (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it