Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contrastive"

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

contrastive
adj 1: of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: {incompatible}]
2: strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or
contrastive) colors" [syn: {contrasting}]
3: (grammar) syntactically establishing a relationship of
contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence;
"disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though'
serve a contrastive function"


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