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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.

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contrastcontrastive stress
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