a. [f. CONTRAST v. + -IVE.] Forming a contrast; standing in contrast (to something else).
1816. [see CONTRASTIVELY].
1841. Mrs. Browning, Lett. Horne (1877), II. liv. 97. Something … deeply contrastive to the Heavenly Spirits.
1870. Pall Mall G., 6 Oct., 4. Attitudes should be contrastive, and so composed as to balance and set off each other.
Hence Contrastively adv.
1816. Keatinge, Trav., I. 189. Royalty must be approached contrastively barefooted.
