contrastive
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms
Related & opposite
- counterpoint derivation
- antonymous similar to
Sense 2 adjective
strikingly different; tending to contrast
contrasting (or contrastive) colors
Related & opposite
- counterpoint derivation
- different similar to
Sense 3 adjective
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function
Related & opposite
- grammar domain topic
- disjunctive similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | counterpoint |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | antonymous |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | counterpoint |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | different |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | grammar |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | disjunctive |