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Contrastive

//kənˈtɹæs.tɪv// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Contrasting: tending to contrast; being in contrast.

    "This thesis is an attempt to apply the theory of transformational grammar to the Japanese language. […] Comparison of the structure of Japanese and English is also our concern, whenever possible, and it is seen that the transformational theory is helpful in such contrastive studies."

Adjective
  1. 1
    syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence wordnet
  2. 2
    strikingly different; tending to contrast wordnet
  3. 3
    of words so related that one contrasts with the other wordnet

Etymology

From contrast + -ive.

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