of words so related that one contrasts with the other; `rich and `hard-up are contrastive terms
[ Syn: incompatible ]
strikingly different; tending to contrast; contrasting (or contrastive) colors
[ Syn: contrasting ]
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function'