contrastive

Adjective Satellite

• of words so related that one contrasts with the other
  • "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
• strikingly different; tending to contrast
  • "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
• syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
  • "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"

Adj

• Contrasting: tending to contrast; being in contrast.

Synonyms

contrasting, incompatible

Related Words

comparative