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Definition: Contrastive |
ContrastiveAdjective1. Of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms". 2. Strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors". 3. (grammar) syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: ContrastiveSynonyms: contrasting (adj), incompatible (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Contrastive |
| English words defined with "contrastive": contrasting ♦ incompatible. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contrastive": emic. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Contrastive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Contrastive" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
contrastive english japanese | 2 |
contrastive linguistics | 2 |
adjective contrastive english spanish | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "contrastive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | مختلف (contradictory, different, discrepant, disparate, dissimilar, distinct, diverse, diversified, several, sundry, unlike, variant, various). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 対照的 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいしょうてき (symmetrical). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontrastivecay kontrastiv. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contrastive": contrastively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-1 letter: carnotites, constative. | |
-2 letters: anoretics, carnotite, contrives, cornetist, creations, interacts, invocates, navicerts, reactions, stationer, taconites, tractions, veronicas. | |
-3 letters: aconites, ancestor, anoretic, aversion, canister, canoeist, carotins, cavettos, centavos, centrist, ceratins, cisterna, citators, citrates, citterns, cointers, conative, contrast, contrite, contrive, converts, corniest, corvinas, cottiers, creatins, creation, cristate, enactors, entastic, evictors, interact, intreats, investor, invocate, navicert, nictates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-s-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: contrastively, privatdocents, reactivations. | |
+3 letters: coinvestigator, contraceptives, contrapositive, contraventions. | |
+4 letters: coinvestigators, conservationist, contrapositives, noncreativities, nonrelativistic, overabstracting, overextractions, prognosticative. | |
+5 letters: anticonservation, conservationists, controversialist, devitrifications, magnetostrictive, overcultivations, overenthusiastic, overexpectations, vasoconstrictive. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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