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Meaning of word contrastive from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.
contrastive adjective
Meaning : Of words so related that one contrasts with the other.
Example :
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms.
Synonyms : incompatible
Meaning : Strikingly different. Tending to contrast.
Example :
Contrasting (or contrastive) colors.
Synonyms : contrasting
Meaning : Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence.
Example :
Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function.
