contrastive
ADJECTIVE
/kən'træstɪv/
11 LETTERS · 3 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH C
contrastive is a valid 11-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
C3O1N1T1R1A1S1T1I1V4E1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 =16 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 32TRIPLE WORD → 48
MEANING
What does contrastive mean?
ADJECTIVE · 3 SENSES
1
Of words so related that one contrasts with the other.
“`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms”
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2
Strikingly different; tending to contrast.
“contrasting (or contrastive) colors”
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3
Syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence.
“disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function”
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