contrastive

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

Synonyms

incompatible contrasting

Words of close approximity

contrasting