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contrastive meaning and definition
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Definition of contrastive (adjective)
- of words so related that one contrasts with the other
- "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
- synonyms: incompatible
- strikingly different; tending to contrast
- "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
- synonyms: contrasting
- syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
- "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
Source: Princeton University Wordnet