contrary
— Noun
– English
~ a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
contrary
— Noun
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~ exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty"
contras
— Noun
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~ a Nicaraguan counterrevolutionary guerrilla force from 1979 to 1990; it opposed a left-wing government, with support from the United States
contrast
— Verb
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~ to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities"
contrast
— Verb
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~ put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student"
contrast
— Noun
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~ the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
contrast
— Noun
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~ the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared; "in contrast to"; "by contrast"
contrast
— Noun
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~ the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
contrast
— Noun
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~ the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
contrast
— Noun
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~ a conceptual separation or distinction; "there is a narrow line between sanity and insanity"
contrasting
— Adjective
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~ strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
contrastingly
— Adverb
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~ in a contrasting manner; "contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced"
contrastive
— Adjective
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~ of words so related that one contrasts with the other; "`rich' and `hard-up' are contrastive terms"
contrastive
— Adjective
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~ strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors"
contrastive
— Adjective
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~ syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence; "disjunctive conjunctions like `but', `or', or `though' serve a contrastive function"
contrasty
— Adjective
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~ having sharp differences between black and white