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Direct contrast   /dərˈɛkt kˈɑntræst/   Listen
Direct contrast

noun
1.
The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared.  Synonym: contrast.  "By contrast"





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"Direct contrast" Quotes from Famous Books



... by the National Assembly of 1789 and those given to it in the Consulate exhibited a direct contrast seldom found outside the region of abstract terms. Local customs, survivals of earlier law, such as soften the difference between England and the various democracies of the United States, had no place in the sharp-cut ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe
... In direct contrast to this basin is the Elk Park. Yellowstone is celebrated among other things for being the home of an immense number of the most remarkable specimens of North American animals. The Government herd ...
— My Native Land • James Cox


Words linked to "Direct contrast" :   opposition, oppositeness, contrast


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