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contradistinctive

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the quality of or characterized by contradistinction; opposite in qualities.
  • Distinguished by opposites.
  • noun A mark of contradistinction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.

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  • adjective Having the quality of contradistinction; distinguishing by contrast.

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Examples

  • And there's plenty of the unexpected and contradistinctive about its bid for struggling British music and books retailer HMV Group.

    Giles' HMV Rejects Financial Suitor 2006

  • And there's plenty of the unexpected and contradistinctive about its bid for struggling British music and books retailer HMV Group.

    U.K. Faces Of The Week, Feb. 6-10 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

  • And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance.

    Feminism 101 2004

  • And, in another swell little marriage between projection and the reliance on contradistinctive definitions of manhood, the straight man who invents a sexual assault out of whole cloth benefits from the overwhelming narrative that it is women who routinely make false rape claims in desperate bids of self-preservation or vengeance.

    Feminism 101 2004

  • Montani was installed at the castle as one of the countess's maids in waiting: a somewhat contradistinctive term, be it understood, to a

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • - The application must be submitted with accredited by - laws, regulations, or any contradistinctive document that sets out the organization's rules of operation.

    Masters Finance 2009

  • Antarctic itself is a rare, contradistinctive place-name anti ` opposite '+ arkitos, adjective of arktos ` bear,' i.e., ` opposite the arctic or opposite the North Pole. '

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4 1986

  • _must_ be very contradistinctive -- was the Minister, in this instance, the poor man's friend, or the rich man's friend?

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

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