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contrast medium |
contrast with |
contrastimulant |
contrasting |
contrastingly |
contrastive
| contrasty
| contrate
| contratenor
| contravallation
| contravene
contrastive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective contrastive has 3 senses
- contrastive(s = adj.all) incompatible - of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" Derived form verb contrast2
- contrastive(s = adj.all) contrasting - strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors" Derived form verb contrast2
- contrastive(s = adj.all) Array - syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
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