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Adjective: contrastive  kun'trãs-tiv or 'kón,trãs-tiv
  1. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other
    "'rich' and 'hard-up' are contrastive terms";
    - incompatible
     
  2. Strikingly different; tending to contrast
    "contrastive colours";
    - contrasting
     
  3. (grammar) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
    "disjunctive conjunctions like 'but', 'or', or 'though' serve a contrastive function"

See also: antonymous, different, disjunctive

Encyclopedia: Contrastive