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Definition of Contrastive

1. Adjective. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other. "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

2. Adjective. Strikingly different; tending to contrast. "Contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

3. 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"

Definition of Contrastive

1. Adjective. contrasting ¹

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Definition of Contrastive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrastive

contrast enhancement contrast material contrast media contrast medium contrast ratio contrast sensitivity contrast set contrast stain contrast transfer function contrastable

contrasted contrastimulant contrastimulants contrasting contrastingly contrastive (current term) contrastively contrastiveness contrastivism contrastivist

contrastivists contrastivity contrasts contrasty contrasuggestible contrasuppressor cells contrat contrate contratenor contratenors

Literary usage of Contrastive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1895)
"The Apostle is presenting a contrastive view of two systems under which it has ... As the method of argument is entirely antithetical and contrastive, ..."

2. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"Difference is divisible into that which is, and that which is not, contrastive. The difference between colours, that between odours, that between sounds, ..."

3. The Alternative: A Study in Psychology by Edmund R. Clay (1882)
"Difference is divisible into that which is, and that which is not, contrastive. The difference between colours, that between odours, that between sounds, ..."

4. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"In c and d we have a ' contrastive' association : the middle portion of c is overestimated, ... B gives a contrastive interspace illusion. ..."

5. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir (1921)
"... the contrastive perspective afforded by still more divergent languages, such as Basque and Finnish, will these vestigial resemblances receive their true ..."

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