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contrastive

/kən'træstɪv/

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adjective
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
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"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

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incompatible antonymous
adjective
strikingly different; tending to contrast
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"contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

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contrasting different
adjective
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
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"disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"

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disjunctive

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