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contrastive

adj
/kənˈtɹɑː.stɪv/UK/kənˈtɹæs.tɪv/US

Etymology

From contrast + -ive.

  1. derived from contrā
  2. derived from contrastare
  3. borrowed from contraster
  4. suffixed as contrastive — “contrast + ive”

Definitions

  1. Contrasting

    Contrasting: tending to contrast; being in contrast.

    • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
    • Vowel length is contrastive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contrastive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA