Meaning

6 senses
  1. A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

    (uncountable)The degree of this difference.

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

    Kontrast, Kontrast

    контра́стkontrást

  2. (countable)A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.

    Kontrast

  3. (countable)A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

    Israel is a country of many contrasts.

    Gegensatz, Kontrast, Unterschied

  4. (countable)Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.

  5. (countable, rhetoric, uncountable)Antithesis.

  6. (uncountable)Contrast medium

More definitions
  • the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
  • the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
  • the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
  • the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

Examples

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  1. In this book, the writer contrasts Japan with America.

    У цій книзі автор порівнює Японію та Америку.

    deIn diesem Buch vergleicht der Verfasser Japan und Amerika.

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  2. She seemed happy in contrast to the man.

    deIm Gegensatz zu dem Mann schien sie glücklich zu sein.

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  3. He painted the front door black for contrast.

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  4. The contrast between the two ideas is very marked.

    deDer Unterschied zwischen den beiden Ideen ist sehr deutlich.

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  5. She seemed very happy in contrast to the man.

    deSie schien sehr fröhlich, im Gegensatz zu dem Mann.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
difference that makes colours more or less distinguishable:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
degree of this difference:
difference between two objects, people or concepts:

Origin

From French contraster, from Latin contrāstāre (“to resist", "to withstand”), from contrā

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

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