contrast
Academic Word List, sublist 4.
About 61.03 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable. The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- noun The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- noun A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- noun A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- noun Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- noun Antithesis.
- noun Contrast medium
- verb To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
Similar words
demarcation dividing line line counterpoint direct contrast paradox antithesis opposite contradistinction contrary
Often followed by
to with between the of in is and medium
Word family
contrastable contrasted contrasting contrastingly contrastive contrasts
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