'contrastive' definitions:

Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: contrastive, incompatible]

Strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" [syn: contrasting, contrastive]

Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"