contrast

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A clear difference between two or more things when you compare them.

   Israel is a country of many contrasts.

2. 2
   verb

   To compare two things in order to show how they differ.

   The teacher contrasted the best student's work with the weakest student's.

3. 3
   verb

   To be clearly different when placed or seen together.

   The bright foreground strongly contrasts with the dark background.

4. 4
   noun

   The difference in brightness or color that makes things easy to tell apart.

   The red and the orange don't have much contrast, so I can hardly tell them apart.

From French contraster, from Italian contrastare (“to resist", "to withstand”), from Vulgar Latin *contrāstāre, from Latin contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).

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