Associations to the word «Contrastive»
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Adjective
Wiktionary
CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Contrasting
Dictionary definition
CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms".
CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors".
CONTRASTIVE, 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".
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.