Contrastive

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contrastive
       adj 1: of words so related that one contrasts with the other;
              "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms" [syn: {incompatible}]
       2: strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or
          contrastive) colors" [syn: {contrasting}]
       3: syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast


          between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive
          conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a
          contrastive function"