Contrastive

ahd-5
  • adjective. Containing or forming a contrast; contrasting.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Capable of distinguishing meaning; being in opposition.
  • adjective. Pertaining to the study of structural contrasts.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the nature of or arising from contrast; due to contrast.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. contrasting
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. strikingly different; tending to contrast
  • adjective. syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
  • adjective. of words so related that one contrasts with the other
  • Word Usage
    "Perhaps example number 10 could be explained as contrastive (or emphatic stress)."
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