Contrastive (adjective)

Designed to show or emphasize differences or contrasts between things.

Origin:

Late 19th century: from contrast + -ive.

Examples:

1. The two paintings are contrastive, one is dark and the other is light.
2. The experiment used a contrastive approach to compare the two methods.
3. The contrastive analysis is used in linguistics to compare different languages.
4. The contrastive rhetoric is the study of how writing and speaking differs between cultures.
5. The study used a contrastive design to compare the effectiveness of two different treatments.