Definition of Contrastive

• of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich and `hard-up are contrastive terms"
• strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
• syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but, `or, or `though serve a contrastive function"