`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Contrasting (or contrastive) colors.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : contrastive linguistics.    From Dictionary.com. 

You have to have a plesantly contrastive backdrop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hazards of Plating… and WCB | Baking Bites] Reference

My feelings about this stop motion piece are contrastive.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fat Clips!!! : THE RACONTEURS – Broken Boy Soldier] Reference

I haven't been able to Google Ge'ez contrastive to Coptic.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: LISTING LANGUAGES.] Reference

The notion of nonconceptual content is fundamentally contrastive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonconceptual Mental Content] Reference

Perhaps example number 10 could be explained as contrastive or emphatic stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

Perhaps example number 10 could be explained as contrastive (or emphatic stress).    From Wordnik.com.  [P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT] Reference

In fact, the lack of synchronicity becomes more contrastive with each passing day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarification] Reference

You want to see a comparable piece of contrastive linguistic crackpotage, try this.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: POKORNY ONLINE.] Reference

The taming is attempted through treating focal differences as contrastive differences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

With the similar scenes and at the same place, this man has totally contrastive destiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Influence in Advertising, Television, and Film] Reference

Indeed, one might argue against contrastive three relata views that they preclude causal chains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

The only marginal exception, I think, would be cases with contrastive stress on the pronoun, e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Trying Too Hard? [UPDATE: Or Maybe Just Making a One-Off Mistake]] Reference

So of the same family, maybe variants that didn't have a vowel reduction losing it's contrastive a?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

The contrastive criterion is illuminating, as it shows the restrictive force of the qualifying noun.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Team GB] Reference

We simply cannot assume that i and e weren't contrastive in Hittite, there's too much proof against this.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

I do share my correspondent's intuition that the contrastive meaning is stronger in whilst than it is in while.    From Wordnik.com.  [On whilst] Reference

Hence the joke; if there weren't this crossing of contrastive explananda, there wouldn't be anything humorous about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

Since we'd have a contrastive triplet, we could then say validly that the three sounds are contrastive and thus phonemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

There are three main replies to the surface form argument, the first of which is that contrastive surface forms exist too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

(For discussion of the relevance of contrastive explanation to the causes/conditions distinction see Menzies 2004a; 2007.).    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

The nature of the question is contrastive: why hexagonal as opposed to, say, any other polygonal figure or combination thereof?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference

And yes, I realised while writing that most of your readers would know what an MP is, but I couldn't resist the contrastive anecdote.    From Wordnik.com.  [what one community did to support u.s. war resisters in canada] Reference

It also serves as a contrastive subordinator like ‘but’, as in: He was reserving judgement, though he considered it a hopeful sign.    From Wordnik.com.  [On anacolutha] Reference

The first of these alternatives, inspired by van Fraassen's (1980) work on contrastive explanation, takes all causal claims to presuppose an implicit effectual difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

Tennisarm injury can appear in multiple contrastive ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

We use darker contrastive borders compared to lighter fills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fedora People] Reference

Since his promotion to the Phillies in 2004, the two halves are as contrastive as night and day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillies Nation] Reference

New directory models/contains trainable models, contrastive is now a sub-package of models/some important changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

I thought while walking a peaceful inheritance in Siem Reap and the contrastive slums what it was that it would not be possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Thai opposition leader calls for national government] Reference

Firstly, the near object looks saturated and strongly contrastive while the far object looks desaturated and weakly contrastive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CGArena - Animation, 3D, Computer Graphics, Digital Artists] Reference

Slide 34: contrastive emphasis Many languages mark contrastive emphasis like English, using an intonational accent and additional stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

With contrastive stress on 'all', is about as close as I can come in modern NAmerican English.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: TRANSLATING SCHWEIK.] Reference

They're contrastive in RP, yes.    From Wordnik.com.  [On imaginary pronunciations] Reference

Is a word final /m/ contrastive with /n/ in Etruscan?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Those Mysterious Sovanians] Reference

RBM-CD-TRAINER) or persistent contrastive divergence (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Lisp] Reference

) can be used to train a BPN, and either contrastive divergence (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Lisp] Reference