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contrastive

Dictionary definition · contrastive

adjective

  1. of words so related that one contrasts with the other"‘rich’ and ‘hard-up’ are contrastive terms"
  2. strikingly different; tending to contrast"contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
  3. 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: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).