• (British) IPA: /ˈkɒntɹɑːst/

  (America) enPR: kŏn'trăst, IPA: /ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ɹæst/

  (British) IPA: /kənˈtɹɑːst/

  (America) enPR kəntrăst', IPA: /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/, /ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ɹæst/

contrast

1. (countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
   1. (uncountable) The degree of this difference.

      The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.

   2. (countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
2. (countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

   Israel is a country of many contrasts.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803 ↗:

     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.

3. (countable, uncountable, rhetoric) Antithesis.

• German: Kontrast
• Portuguese: contraste
• Russian: контра́ст
• Spanish: contraste

• German: Kontrast
• Portuguese: contraste
• Spanish: contraste

• French: contraste
• German: Gegensatz, Kontrast
• Italian: contrasto
• Portuguese: contraste
• Spanish: contraste

• German: Kontrast
• Portuguese: contraste
• Spanish: contraste

contrast (contrasts, present participle contrasting; past and past participle contrasted)

1. (transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
2. (intransitive) To form a contrast.

   Foreground and background strongly contrast.

   • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

• French: contraster
• German: gegenüberstellen
• Portuguese: contrastar
• Russian: противопоставля́ть

• French: contraster
• Spanish: contrastar