ADJECTIVE
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of words so related that one contrasts with the other
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms -
strikingly different; tending to contrast
contrasting (or contrastive) colors -
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function
How To Use contrastive In A Sentence
- The temperature difference is so contrastive that I have to dress differently in a day.
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- They use contrastive typefaces for distinct purposes, such as bold-face type for headwords, roman for definitions, italics for abbreviated codes and specimen words and phrases, and small capitals for cross-references.
- Then in 1964 he came up with the idea of setting up contrastive tagmemes of subject-as-actor in contrast to subject-as-goal.
- Othello's account of the origins of the handkerchief, another example of this discoursal antithesis, combines, in a contrastive fugal pattern, domestic detail and the mystical sublime of an empowering love.
- `rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms
- It is contrastive experiences like these so close together that helped us understand how precious learning resources are and how critical access to these resources is for literacy development for individuals and their communities. Supporting Literacy in Ethiopia through Libraries and Reading Rooms -Asselin and Doiron
- They use contrastive typefaces for distinct purposes, such as bold-face type for headwords, roman for definitions, italics for abbreviated codes and specimen words and phrases, and small capitals for cross-references.
- These cultural thinking patterns are called contrastive rhetoric.
- In Russian velarized stops contrast with palatalized ones, and velarization is also contrastive in Irish.