contrastive

/kən'træstɪv/ adjective
11 letters3 syllables16 points in Scrabble®19 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS3
ADJECTIVE
1

Of words so related that one contrasts with the other.

“`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms”

2

Strikingly different; tending to contrast.

“contrasting (or contrastive) colors”

3

Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence.

“disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function”

WORD FORMS
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Pig Latinontrastivecay
Starts & ends withC … E
Syllablescon · tras · tive
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