Antonyms of adj contrastive

3 senses of contrastive

Sense 1
contrastive, incompatible -- (of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms")

INDIRECT (VIA antonymous) -> synonymous -- ((of words) meaning the same or nearly the same)

Sense 2
contrasting, contrastive -- (strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors")

INDIRECT (VIA different) -> same -- (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year")

Sense 3
contrastive -- (syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function")

INDIRECT (VIA disjunctive) -> conjunctive -- (serving or tending to connect)

Similarity of adj contrastive

3 senses of contrastive

Sense 1
contrastive, incompatible -- (of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms")
       => antonymous (vs. synonymous) -- (of words: having opposite meanings)

Sense 2
contrasting, contrastive -- (strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors")
       => different (vs. same) -- (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one")

Sense 3
contrastive -- (syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function")
       => disjunctive (vs. conjunctive) -- (serving or tending to divide or separate)

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