Defenition of the word contrastive

• Defenition of the word contrastive

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

Synonyms for the word contrastive

• • contrasting
  • incompatible

Similar words in the contrastive

• • antonymous
  • different
  • disjunctive

See other words

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  • Synonym for the word contrasty
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  • Holonyms for the word controllership
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  • Translation of the word in other languages control character