contrastive English

Meaning contrastive meaning

What does contrastive mean?

contrastive

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

— 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

— adjective (= contrasting) strikingly different; tending to contrast contrasting (or contrastive) colors

Synonyms contrastive synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as contrastive?

contrastive English » English

contrasting

incompatible

cross-linguistic

contrasty