Definition of Contrastive

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"
  • strikingly different
    tending to contrast
    "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
  • of words so related that one contrasts with the other
    "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
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Word games points for the Contrastive

  • Scrabble® score of the contrastive (16)
  • Word Chums® score of the contrastive (22)
  • Words With Friends® score of the contrastive (19)

Unscramble contrastive

1842 unscramble word found using the letters contrastive.
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