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contrastive

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Adjective

syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
- disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function

strikingly different; tending to contrast
- contrasting (or contrastive) colors

of words so related that one contrasts with the other
- `rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms

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Synonyms:
contrasting incompatible

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Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "contrastive":
contrastive counteractive
Words contain "contrastive" in its definition in English - English (Wordnet) dictionary:
contrastive but then on the other hand then again contrasting incompatible

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