Meaning

adjective of words so related that one contrasts with the other

adjective strikingly different; tending to contrast

adjective syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence

originEtymology tree English contrast Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English contrastive From contrast + -ive.

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