0 past simple and past participle of contrast
1 to compare two people or things in order to show the differences between them:
Her later sensual works contrast starkly with the harsh earlier paintings.
The president's passionate speech contrasted strongly with his subdued address to the parliament yesterday.
What he said contrasted strikingly with what he actually did.
The designer chose bright curtains and cushions that contrast with the subdued wallpaper.
The sharpness of the lemon contrasts deliciously with the sweetness of the sugar.
This contrasted with an ethno-national source of ideological division between the two nationalist parties.
These geometrically regular cells of hypodermis strongly contrasted the epidermis, composed of smaller cells with sinusoidal anticlinal walls.
This approach will be contrasted with a currently popular one in which localist representations play no part.
