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: WordNet

Synonyms

other different diverse differential incompatible contrasting distinguishable disparate dissimilar disjunctive incommensurable separative discrepant divergent contrasted

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Antonyms

synonymous synergistic conjunctive

Phrases with the word

contrastive distribution contrastive focus reduplication contrastive linguistics contrastive vocabulary

Examples

contrasting (or contrastive) colors Source: Internet

disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function Source: Internet

`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms Source: Internet

All the clusters are shown in the following table, phonetically, i.e. superscript ʰ can mark either contrastive or non-contrastive aspiration (see above). Source: Internet

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”. Source: Internet

An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

contrasting with contrasting word catalog contrastingly contrastive distribution contrastive focus reduplication contrastive linguistics