Crossword-Solution: CONTRAST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrast | v. i. | To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities. |
| Contrast | v. t. | To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past. |
| Contrast | v. t. | To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object. |
| Contrast | n. | The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities. |
| Contrast | n. | Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison. |
| Contrast | n. | The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRAST (5)
The Piccaninnies, on their part, trusted implicitly to his honour, and their whole action of the night stands out in marked contrast to his.
This picture of to-day in its frame of four hundred years ago did not produce that marked contrast between ancient and modern which is implied by the contrast of date.
Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to remind him of the image of Divine Maternity, which so many illustrious painters have vied with one another to represent; something which should remind him, indeed, but only by contrast, of that sacred image of sinless motherhood, whose infant was to redeem the world.
The passage was dark, and, by contrast with the picture the window frame enclosed, the side of the room seemed impenetrably dark.
Hackers invest this term with a playfulness that makes an ironic contrast with its historical meaning.
Quotes with CONTRAST (3)
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
... Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth...
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2012).