contrastive

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con·tras·tive | \ kən-ˈtra-stiv

, ˈkän-ˌtra-

Definition of contrastive

: forming or consisting of a contrast

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Recent Examples on the Web The two women, mostly onstage together, occupy the zones separately, their contrastive presences balanced: Ms. Beiser hot and more sedentary, Ms. Whelan cool but mobile. — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019 While climbing a Martian mountain, NASA's Curiosity rover has come across a crater capable of creating contrastive chemical environments. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2016 The group with contrastive analysis not only discovered something about English. — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017

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