contrastive
Speech parts
1. contrastive - Adjective
2. contrastive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
strikingly different; tending to contrast
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Antonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
contrasting (or contrastive) colors
disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms
All the clusters are shown in the following table, phonetically, i.e. superscript ʰ can mark either contrastive or non-contrastive aspiration (see above).
An example of this relative spread can be seen in trying to explain why contrastive voicing commonly occurs with plosives, such as in English with “neat” and “need”, but much fewer have this occur in fricatives, such as the English “niece” and “knees”.
An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below.