Contrast vs Contrasty - What's the difference?
contrast | contrasty |
(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
(photography) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph)
As a noun contrast
is (label) 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.As an adjective contrasty is
(photography) having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).contrast
English
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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.
