Meaning of contrastive

(adj) 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"