syndetic

Adjective

Serving to connect or join, especially in grammar, using conjunctions.
connected by a conjunction

Adj

Of or related to syndeton, the use of a conjunction.
Synonym of connective, serving to connect.
Synonym of crossreferenced.
Having bounded gaps between its terms.

Examples

Guns and butter is a syndetic phrase.
His SYNDETIC strategy allowed him to connect several small words into one long bingo.
The dictionary includes syndetic references.
The gap between successive members of a syndetic set may vary but is always less than some specific value: i.e., there is an integer n such that {x,x+1,x+2,⋯,x+n}∩S≠∅ for any x∈N.

Origin / Etymology

From Latin syndeticus, from Ancient Greek συνδετικός (sundetikós), from σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding”) + -κός (-kós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”).

Synonyms

connective, crossreferenced, serving to connect

Antonyms

asyndetic

Scrabble Score: 14

syndetic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
syndetic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
syndetic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

syndetic: valid Words With Friends Word