Refute vs Contrast - What's the difference?
refute | contrast |
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
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To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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(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.
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In transitive terms the difference between refute and contrast
is that refute is to deny the truth or correctness of (something) while contrast is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.As a noun contrast is
a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.refute
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(refut)Usage notes
The second meaning of (refute) (to deny the truth of) is proscribed as erroneous by some(compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is (repudiate), which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin , which can apply to both senses.
Synonyms
* : debunk, disprove, rebut * (deny the truth or correctness): deny, gainsay, rebut, reject, repudiateAntonyms
* : demonstrate, prove * (deny the truth or correctness): accept, embracecontrast
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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.