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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

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