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1. (adj.) contrastive
tending to contrast; contrasting.
2. contrastive
of or pertaining to the study of the similarities and differences between languages or dialects without reference to their origins:
contrastive analysis.
Etymology: (1810–20)
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1. (adj) contrastive, incompatible
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
2. (adj) contrasting, contrastive
strikingly different; tending to contrast
"contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
3. (adj) contrastive
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
"disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
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