What is the meaning of the word "contrastive"?

Definitions:

  1. of words so related that one contrasts with the other copy to clipboard adjective
    • `rich' and `hardup' are contrastive terms copy to clipboard
  2. syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence copy to clipboard adjective
    • disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function copy to clipboard

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