Adjective contrastive has 3 senses
  1. contrastive, incompatible - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
    Antonym: synonymous (indirect, via antonymous)
  2. contrasting, contrastive - strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
    Antonym: same (indirect, via different)
  3. contrastive - syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
    Antonym:
    conjunctive (indirect, via disjunctive)
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