Search Result：contrastive
contrastive 
(TTS Sound)
(TTS Sound)KK Pronunciation
〔 kәnˋtræstIv 〕
Pronunciation
〔 kәnˊtrɑːstiv 〕
Overview of adj contrastive
The adj contrastive has 3 senses
- contrastive, incompatible -- (of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms")
- contrasting, contrastive -- (strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors")
- contrastive -- (syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function")