About The Word Contrastive
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Contrastive
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What's The Definition Of Contrastive?
[adj] (grammar) syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
[adj] strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" [adj] of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" Synonyms | Synonyms for Contrastive: antonymous | contrasting | different | disjunctive | incompatible Related Terms | Find terms related to Contrastive: See Also | |
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