Associations to the word «Contrastive»

Wiktionary

CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Contrasting

Dictionary definition

CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms".
CONTRASTIVE, adjective. Strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors".
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".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope