connective

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/kəˈnɛktɪv/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/kəˈnɛktɪv/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(kə nek′tiv)


WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
con•nec•tive /kəˈnɛktɪv/USA pronunciation   adj. 
  1. serving or tending to connect:connective tissue.

n. [countable]
  1. something that connects.
  2. Grammara word, such as a conjunction, used to connect words, phrases, clauses, and sentences.
con•nec•tiv•i•ty /ˌkɑnɛkˈtɪvɪti/USA pronunciation  n. [uncountable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
con•nec•tive  (kə nek′tiv),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. serving or tending to connect:connective remarks between chapters.

n. 
  1. something that connects.
  2. Grammara word used to connect words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, as a conjunction.
  3. [Bot.]the tissue joining the two cells of the anther.
  • 1645–55; connect + -ive
con•nec′tive•ly, adv. 
con•nec•tiv•i•ty  (kon′ek tiv′i tē),USA pronunciation n. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
connective /kəˈnɛktɪv/ adj
  1. serving to connect or capable of connecting
 n
  1. a thing that connects
  2. a less common word for conjunction
  3. any word that connects phrases, clauses, or individual words
  4. a symbol used in a formal language in the construction of compound sentences from simpler sentences, corresponding to terms such as or, and, not, etc, in ordinary speech
  5. the tissue of a stamen that connects the two lobes of the anther
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