What is the meaning of contrastive?

adjective

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