Synonyms for contrastive

Adjective

1. contrastive, incompatible, antonymous (vs. synonymous)

usage: of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"

2. contrasting, contrastive, different (vs. same)

usage: strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"

3. contrastive, disjunctive (vs. conjunctive)

usage: syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"