- contrastive, incompatible - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
Antonym: synonymous (indirect, via antonymous)
- contrasting, contrastive - strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
Antonym: same (indirect, via different)
- 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)