Adjective: contrastive kun'trãs-tiv or 'kón,trãs-tiv
- Strikingly different; tending to contrast
"contrastive colours";
- contrasting
- Of words so related that one contrasts with the other
"‘rich’ and ‘hard-up’ are contrastive terms";
- incompatible
- (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