Associations to the word «Contrastive»

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.
Aldous Huxley