Associations to the word «Contrastive»
Noun
- Comparison
- Complexity
- Aspect
- Speech
- Learning
- Implication
- Approach
- Sound
- Clause
- Japanese
- Word
- Variation
- Variant
- Feature
- Description
- Theory
- Perspective
- Element
- Category
- Example
- Characteristic
- Assessment
- Cluster
- Text
- Stop
- Environment
- Teaching
- Difficulty
- Stem
- Opposition
- Instance
- Index
- Meaning
- Stewart
- Relation
- Criticism
- Item
- Disorder
- Cross
- Phrase
- Level
- Cd
- Principle
- Study
- Term
- Transfer
- Research
- System
- Writing
- Unit
- Relationship
- Form
- Structure
- Domain
- Map
- Extent
- Doe
- Use
Adjective
Adverb
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
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.