Contrastive Meaning

There are 3 meaning(s) for word Contrastive

Meaning 1 : of words so related that one contrasts with the other

    Example : `rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms

    Synonyms : incompatible
Meaning 2 : strikingly different; tending to contrast

    Example : contrasting (or contrastive) colors

    Synonyms : contrasting
Meaning 3 : syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence

    Example : disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function