Compartive vs Contrastive - What's the difference?
compartive | contrastive |
Compartive has no English definition.
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
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* 1985 , David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World (page 141)
Compartive is likely misspelled.
Compartive has no English definition.
As an adjective contrastive is
contrasting.compartive
Not English
Compartive has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'compartive':
comparative, comfortable, comparable, conversate, cumbersome, conference, convergence, compromise, convertible, compresence, conversive, conformable, confirmable, canebrake, conferable, conferrable, conformance, convertite, comparate, chambranle, compressive, convertase, conveyorize, conveyorise, confarreate, confirmee, conversance, comprobate, compressure, convertee, compromize, chambersite, cambrasine, camphorate, conferree, conversable, confirmance, cumbrance, cinnabarine, conversible, comportance, comportable, coinverse, confervae, convertancecontrastive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.