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Conversely vs Contrast - What's the difference?

conversely | contrast |

As an adverb conversely

is with a reversed relationship.

As a noun 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.

conversely

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (conjunctive) with a reversed relationship
  • * 2005 , .
    • Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely , stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
  • *

    • See also

    * vice versa English conjunctive adverbs

    contrast

    English

    Noun

  • (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.
  • #:
  • #(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.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
    • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
    • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms