Is There a Word Contrastively?

adj. 1. tending to contrast; contrasting.

What does the word Contrastively mean?

tending to contrast; contrasting. contrastive colors. studying or exhibiting the congruences and differences between two languages or dialects without reference to their origins: contrastive linguistics.

Can contrast be used as an adjective?

The adjective contrastive means "showing the difference between two things when you compare them" — like a contrastive analysis of American and British English. To contrast two things is to think about how they are different. So, the adjective contrastive is used to describe things that differ from one another.

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