Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Contrastive has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
of words so related that one contrasts with the other
"`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
strikingly different; tending to contrast
"contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
"disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
Contrasting.