contrastive

contrastive is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence

   "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"

2. adjective. strikingly different; tending to contrast

   "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

   Synonyms: contrasting

3. adjective. of words so related that one contrasts with the other

   "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

   Synonyms: incompatible

Synonyms

contrasting, incompatible

Common word forms

contrastively, contrastiveness

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