'contrastive' definitions:
Definition of 'contrastive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: contrastive, incompatible]
adjective
Strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" [syn: contrasting, 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"