- Synonyms
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adversative, oppositive
expressing antithesis or opposition
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alternative
necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
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contrastive
syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence
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divisional
serving to divide or marking a division
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partitive, separative
serving to separate or divide into parts
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separative
(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it