Definitions
adjective
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
“`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms”
adjective
strikingly different; tending to contrast
“contrasting (or contrastive) colors”
adjective
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
“disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function”
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