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con•tras•tive
Pronunciation: (kun-tras'tiv), [key]—
adj.
1. tending to contrast; contrasting.
contrastive colors.
2. studying or exhibiting the congruences and differences between two languages or dialects without reference to their origins:
contrastive linguistics. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.