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contrastive definition
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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
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