contrastive

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