contrast

Forms

1.A difference in lightness, brightness or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
- Ohh, you can't fool me. This thing's top of the line! It's got two contrast knobs!
- The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them, I can hardly tell them apart.
2.A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
- Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
3.Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- Why this denunciation of idolatry at this point? And why are Shabbat and the sanctuary mentioned as contrasts to idol worship?
4.Antithesis.

1.To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between; to counterpoint.
2.To form a contrast.
- The color of her dress contrasts very nicely with the black scarf around her neck.
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.
- Foreground and background strongly contrast.

Uncommon· #2133

From French contraster

From Latin contrāstāre (“to resist", "to withstand”)

From contrā (“against”) + stō, stāre (“to stand”).