contrastive   (TTS Sound)

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")