EGAVE

contrastive

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

contrasting antonymous different disjunctive incompatible contradistinctive contrasted counterdistinctive contrariant multicontrast

Often followed by

analysis linguistics stress rhetoric focus studies study and features

Word family

contrast contrasted contrasting contrastively contrasts

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