Contrasting Synonyms and Antonyms

Strikingly different; tending to contrast
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. divergent
  2. contradictory
  3. contrastive
  4. dissimilar
To indicate a contrast
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. differentiating
  2. opposing

Words Related to Contrasting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Contrasting Sentence Examples

  • They were in full bloom, their bright yellow blossoms contrasting starkly against the soft green of new grass.

  • The warm sun had eaten most of the snow from the roadway, leaving a contrasting black ribbon, in places still snow-patched from last night's covering.

  • The two politicians displayed contrasting perspectives.

  • Buffaloes of an uncouth appearance and of a dark slaty color, strikingly contrasting with the neat cattle, abound in Egypt.

  • In connexion with this controversy Lessing wrote his brilliant little treatise, Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet (1769), contrasting the medieval representation of death as a skeleton with the Greek conception of death as the twin-brother of sleep.

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