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contrastive definition

contrastive


 
  Overview  of  adj  contrastive 
 
  The  adj  contrastive  has  3  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  contrastive,  incompatible  --  (of  words  so  related  that  one  contrasts  with  the  other  "`rich'  and  `hard-up'  are  contrastive  terms") 
  2.  contrasting,  contrastive  --  (strikingly  different;  tending  to  contrast;  "contrasting  (or  contrastive)  colors") 
  3.  contrastive  --  ((grammar)  syntactically  establishing  a  relationship  of  contrast  between  sentences  or  elements  of  a  sentence;  "disjunctive  conjunctions  like  `but',  `or',  or  `though'  serve  a  contrastive  function") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  contrastive 
 
  3  senses  of  contrastive 
 
  Sense  1 
  contrastive,  incompatible 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  antonymous)  ->  synonymous 
 
  Sense  2 
  contrasting,  contrastive 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  different)  ->  same 
 
  Sense  3 
  contrastive 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  disjunctive)  ->  conjunctive 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  contrastive 
 
  3  senses  of  contrastive 
 
  Sense  1 
  contrastive,  incompatible 
  =>  antonymous  (vs.  synonymous) 
 
  Sense  2 
  contrasting,  contrastive 
  =>  different  (vs.  same) 
 
  Sense  3 
  contrastive 
  =>  disjunctive  (vs.  conjunctive) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  contrastive 
 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  contrastive 
 
  contrastive  used  as  an  adjective  is  uncommon  (polysemy  count  =  3) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  contrastive 
  contrastive 
 
  Overview  of  adj  contrastive 
 
  The  adj  contrastive  has  3  senses  (no  senses  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  contrastive,  incompatible  --  (of  words  so  related  that  one  contrasts  with  the  other  "`rich'  and  `hard-up'  are  contrastive  terms") 
  2.  contrasting,  contrastive  --  (strikingly  different;  tending  to  contrast;  "contrasting  (or  contrastive)  colors") 
  3.  contrastive  --  ((grammar)  syntactically  establishing  a  relationship  of  contrast  between  sentences  or  elements  of  a  sentence;  "disjunctive  conjunctions  like  `but',  `or',  or  `though'  serve  a  contrastive  function") 



contrastive definition