English to English
contrastive
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adjective satellite (s)
- of words so related that one contrasts with the other(adj.all)Example:
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms.
source: wordnet30 - strikingly different; tending to contrast(adj.all)Example:
Contrasting (or contrastive) colors.
source: wordnet30 - syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence(adj.all)Example:
Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function.
source: wordnet30