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in contrast

in contrast prepositional phrase: contrarily.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Contrarily.
    • Spain, in contrast, is much more centralized.
    • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II...

Words formed from in contrast

Questions about in contrast

What does in contrast mean?
In contrast means contrarily.
What part of speech is in contrast?
In contrast is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in contrast in the dictionary

  1. in conjunction with
  2. in conscience
  3. in consequence
  4. in contempt
  5. in contention
  6. in contrast
  7. in contrast to
  8. in control
  9. in copula
  10. in countenance
  11. in country

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