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contrastful

contrastful adjective: marked by strong contrast; full of contrasts.

Adjective

contrastful (comparative more contrastful, superlative most contrastful)

  1. Marked by strong contrast; full of contrasts.
    • On the stage, the chief actor always wears the best clothes. He has the best lines to recite. And he has a whole flock of minor players who subdue themselves that his brilliance may be highly contrastful.1926 May 22, Morris Markey, “A Yankee Holiday”, in The New Yorker, volume 2, number 14, New York, N. Y.: F-R Pub. Corp., page 21

Forms of contrastful

comparativemore contrastful
superlativemost contrastful

Origin of contrastful

From contrast + -ful.

Questions about contrastful

What does contrastful mean?
Contrastful means marked by strong contrast; full of contrasts.
What part of speech is contrastful?
Contrastful is an adjective.

Words near contrastful in the dictionary

  1. contrast therapy
  2. contrastable
  3. contrastably
  4. contrasted
  5. contrastedly
  6. contrastful
  7. contrastimulant
  8. contrastimulants
  9. contrastimulation
  10. contrastimuli
  11. contrastimulus

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