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Past tense of contrast

regular verb

The past tense of contrast is contrasted. The past participle is also contrasted.

Forms of contrast

Base form (V1)contrast /kənˈtɹɑːst/
Past tense (V2)contrasted
Past participle (V3)contrasted
Present participlecontrasting
Third person singularcontrasts

Contrasted in a sentence

  • The savory rabbit soup contrasted well with the sweet cucumber sandwiches with jam.From the entry savory
  • The perfumed pages of the letter contrasted with its doleful writing.From the entry perfumed
  • The dark traces of the cracks in the crazed surface of the pot contrasted with the light glaze and were quite attractive.From the entry crazed
  • Some observers have contrasted China with the US, whose economy has weathered the post-Covid recovery better.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC. From the entry weather
  • The interpretations of jealous and nonjealous family members regarding a jealousy-inducing event were contrasted.2004, David J. Berghuis; Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr., The Family Therapy Progress Notes Planner, page 252. From the entry nonjealous

Meaning of contrast

  1. noun The degree of this difference.
  2. noun A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  3. noun A difference between two objects, people or concepts.

Full definition of contrast

Questions about the past tense of contrast

What is the past tense of contrast?
The past tense of contrast is contrasted.
What is the past participle of contrast?
The past participle of contrast is contrasted.
Is contrast a regular or irregular verb?
Contrast is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: contrast (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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