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adjective satellite (s)

• of words so related that one contrasts with the other(adj.all)

  Example:
  `rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms.
  

  Synonym:
  incompatible
  

  source: wordnet30
• strikingly different; tending to contrast(adj.all)

  Example:
  Contrasting (or contrastive) colors.
  

  Synonym:
  contrasting
  

  source: wordnet30
• syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence(adj.all)

  Example:
  Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function.
  

  source: wordnet30