contrastive
- adjective
- /kənˈtræstɪv/
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contrastivo
- The teacher used contrastive examples to help students understand the difference between the past and present tense.
- contrastive rhetoric
- contrastive stress
- contrastive system
And the idea is called contrastive reasons.
- And the idea is called contrastive reasons.
Examples
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But they have this side effect, which is that they tend to make colours that are highly contrastive look better when they're against that background.
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The text presents the reader with a series of contrastive tables: the demographic profile of students versus that of faculty, students' aspirations, their progression intentions, and contrastive faculty and students' perceptions of the barriers faced in returning to college.
Academic text (2014) -
Against such a discouraging background, the papers of prominent linguists on contrastive culture analysis are of particular interest.
Academic text (1996) -
In the second study, dissonance was motivated by urging the participants to write articles that were contrastive to their attitudes.
Academic text (2012) -
If I am right, the limitations of Nussbaum's cognitive theory of emotions provide a superb contrastive stage on which to put our spotlight back on Yeats's poem.
Academic text (1998) -
Gender ideologies of male and female inspire contrastive notions of gender-appropriate space and sociability by opposing concepts of "outside" and "inside."
Academic text (1998) -
Such divisions of outside and inside operate as well to mutually enhance and differentiate flamenco performance into a contrastive system that is both a public Spanish icon and a private Andalusian tradition.
Academic text (1998) -
Tradition, for flamenco aficionados, transcends notions of resistance to change to reveal a contrastive system of meaning that actually embraces change (deWaal Malefyt 1997, n.d.).
Academic text (1998) -
In her presentation, she highlighted the contrastive differences between urban and rural lifestyles.
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The artist's work employed contrastive colors to emphasize the themes of light and shadow.
Synonyms
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3.7
Clearly different from one another in a way you notice
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9.0
Showing small details that help tell things apart
Showing a contrast between two ideas, as in the word but
Showing a clear difference between two ideas
A feature that shows a difference between things
Antonyms
How Contrastive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Contrastive comes from the root contra- meaning 'against', like in the words contrary and counter. It gives the picture of putting two things 'against' each other so their differences stand out, so contrastive means showing or stressing differences.