contrastive, adj.
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
<adj.all>
contrastive
sample sentences
"disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
strikingly different; tending to contrast
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
contrasting contrastive
sample sentences
"contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
<adj.all>
contrastive incompatible
sample sentences
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
similar to