Antonym vs Contrast - What's the difference?
antonym | contrast |
(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses.
(label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
#(label) The degree of this difference.
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#(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
(label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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*: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.
Antithesis.
To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
To form a contrast.
* Lyell
As nouns the difference between antonym and contrast
is that antonym is a word which has the opposite meaning of another, although not necessarily in all its senses while contrast is a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.As a verb contrast is
to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.antonym
English
(wikipedia antonym)Noun
(en noun)- "rich" is an antonym''' of "poor"; "full" is an '''antonym of "empty" .
Antonyms
* synonymDerived terms
* autoantonym * antonymic * antonymous * antonymy * binary antonym * complementary antonym * gradable antonym * polar antonym * relational antonymSee also
* thesaurus *External links
* (wikipedia) ----contrast
English
Noun
Verb
(en verb)- Foreground and background strongly contrast .
- The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.