contrast
A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
Noun 4 meanings
A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
“The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.”
A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
“Israel is a country of many contrasts.”
Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
Antithesis.
Verb 2 meanings
To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
To form a contrast.
“Foreground and background strongly contrast.”
Etymology
From French contraster, from Latin contrāstāre (“to resist", "to withstand”), from contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).
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CONTRAST at a glance
CONTRAST has 8 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + N 1 + T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + S 1 + T 1) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,157 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with contrast
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- CONTRACT12
- CONTRIST10
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