contrastive

Adjective
  1. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other (synset 302391140)
    "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
    similar to: antonymous - of words: having opposite meanings
    same as: incompatible
  2. Strikingly different;
    Tending to contrast (synset 302073546)
    "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
    similar to: different - unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
    same as: contrasting
  3. Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence (synset 300567123)
    "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
    referred to in: grammar - the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
    similar to: disjunctive - serving or tending to divide or separate

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