Added 10 October 2026
contrastive
/kənˈtɹɑː.stɪv/ adjective
adjective Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about contrastive at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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Of words so related that one contrasts with the other.
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms
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Strikingly different; tending to contrast.
contrasting (or contrastive) colors
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Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence.
disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function