CONTRASTIVE

• (adj.) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence

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

• (adj.) strikingly different; tending to contrast

  "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

  synonyms : contrasting

• (adj.) of words so related that one contrasts with the other

  "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

  synonyms : incompatible

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