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UK
/kəntɹˈɑːstɪŋ/
]
[ US /kənˈtɹæstɪŋ/ ]
[ US /kənˈtɹæstɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
strikingly different; tending to contrast
contrasting (or contrastive) colors
How To Use contrasting In A Sentence
- Some of the most popular pairings pitted contrasting advantages and disadvantages against one another.
- Denim is identified as an "American cotton textile where the diagonal warp is a striped hickory cloth that was once associated with railroadmen's overalls, in which blue or black contrasting undyed white threads form the woven pattern. My God George Will is a bigger fashion snob than me! - dfi
- Mr. Hernandez's monochromatic costumes were 1950s-style, with the plain garb of the villagers contrasting with the cosmopolitan clothes of Neruda and his wife, Matilde, and Di Cosimo's natty, attention-getting white suit. When Postman and Poet Meet
- Sharpening his rhetoric, what they call contrasting himself with Senator Clinton before she started fighting back. CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007
- Start with Words and Pictures takes the unique approach of explaining a word by contrasting it with other words.
- This year he had two contrasting films released. Times, Sunday Times
- India has a cuisine as diverse as its contrasting climate and the Punjab is famed for its clay ovens and tandoori cooking.
- Three-decker novel about the contrasting, intersecting lives of a Chinese boy and girl, born in the same mainland village and brought to America by force of circumstances. Obama Talks. People Listen. Markets Tank.
- The contrasting textures and colours work really well together. The Sun
- Slightly more beguiling is the debate format, where representatives of contrasting positions do battle, and leave it to the reader to decide — with the implicaiton that the reader is now somehow in a position to do so. Perils of pop philosophy