contrast
Meaning of contrast
noun
- the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.
the day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine
a contrast between rural and urban trends
Kos is an island of contrasts
- differ strikingly.
his friend's success contrasted with his own failure
late 17th century (as a term in fine art, in the sense ‘juxtapose so as to bring out differences in form and colour’): from French contraste (noun), contraster (verb), via Italian from medieval Latin contrastare, from Latin contra- ‘against’ + stare ‘stand’.
Information about contrast
- The plural form of contrast is: contrasts.
- Languages in which contrast is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of contrast
con-trast
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- contrast is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
contrast synonyms
Meaning line:
Meaning counterpoint:
Meaning a point or way in which people or things are dissimilar:
Meaning difference; variance:
Meaning a great difference:
Meaning dissimilarity or diversity:
Meaning a difference or contrast between similar things or people:
Meaning distinction made by contrasting the different qualities of two things:
Meaning a difference in opinions, interests, etc:
Meaning the fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent:
Meaning a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits:
Meaning the action or process of differentiating or distinguishing between two or more things or people:
Meaning a combination of statements, ideas, or features which are opposed to one another:
Meaning the state of being incongruous; incompatibility:
Meaning a contrast or antithesis:
Meaning the property of having poles or being polar:
Meaning contribute extra features to (someone or something) in such a way as to improve or emphasize their qualities:
contrast antonyms
Meaning the state or fact of being similar:
Meaning the state of resembling or being alike:
Meaning have a similar appearance to or qualities in common with (someone or something); look or seem like:
Meaning (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped:
Meaning correspond or cause to correspond in some essential respect; make or be harmonious:
Translation of contrast
- Italian: contrapporsi, contrastare, contrapposizione
- Spanish: contraponerse, contrastarse, contrastar, contraponer, contraposición, contraste
- Portuguese: contrastar, contrapor, contraposição
- French: opposition
Words that rhyme with contrast
rast, harast, brast, imbrast, upbrast, paederast, pederast, metaphrast, paraphrast, protometaphrast, thrast, Anatrast, myelotrast, neurotrast, radiocontrast, recontrast, thorotrast, visotrast, wrast
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