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