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Contractive vs Contrastive - What's the difference?

contractive | contrastive |

As adjectives the difference between contractive and contrastive

is that contractive is able to contract; contractile while contrastive is contrasting.

contractive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to contract; contractile
    • ----

    contrastive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • contrasting
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 1965-06-04 , author = Shigeyuki Kuroda , title = Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language , site = DSpace@MIT , url = http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13006 , accessdate = 2014-02-24 }}
    This thesis is an attempt to apply the theory of transformational grammar to the Japanese language. Comparison of the structure of Japanese and English is also our concern, whenever possible, and it is seen that the transformational theory is helpful in such contrastive studies.
  • * 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
    • Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.

    Derived terms

    * contrastively

    See also

    * comparative ----