contrastive

adjective

con·​tras·​tive kən-ˈtra-stiv  ˈkän-ˌtra- 

: forming or consisting of a contrast

contrastively adverb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

This can be made to work using some of the latest developments in non-contrastive SSL methods, particularly a method that my colleagues and I recently proposed called VICReg (Variance, Invariance, Covariance Regularization). —IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2022

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

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above