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Quick definitions from WordNet (contrastive)
▸ adjective: of words so related that one contrasts with the other ("`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms")
▸ adjective: syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence ("Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function")
▸ adjective: strikingly different; tending to contrast ("Contrasting (or contrastive) colors")
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▸ adjective: of words so related that one contrasts with the other ("`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms")
▸ adjective: syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence ("Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function")
▸ adjective: strikingly different; tending to contrast ("Contrasting (or contrastive) colors")
▸ Also see contrastively
▸ Words similar to contrastive
▸ Usage examples for contrastive
▸ Idioms related to contrastive (New!)
▸ Popular nouns described by contrastive
▸ Words that often appear near contrastive
▸ Rhymes of contrastive
▸ Invented words related to contrastive