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Contrasting   /kəntrˈæstɪŋ/   Listen
Contrasting

adjective
1.
Strikingly different; tending to contrast.  Synonym: contrastive.



Contrast

verb
(past & past part. contrasted; pres. part. contrasting)
1.
Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences.
2.
To show differences when compared; be different.  Synonym: counterpoint.



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"Contrasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... already upon us as I stood there for a moment, contrasting the dead and almost eerie silence, with the lights and laughter that ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates

... the life, the energy, the enjoyment, which are observable in a class of children, while they are under the influence, and subjected to the discipline of the catechetical exercise. This will perhaps be still more remarkable, if ever they have had an opportunity of contrasting this lively scene with the death-like monotony of a school where the exercise is as yet unknown. Many can yet remember instances when it was first introduced into some of the Sabbath schools in Scotland, and the astonishment ...
— A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education • James Gall

... his walk and fixed his gaze on the road which led to the miners' cabins. All the men's eyes followed his, and they saw the figure of their fellow-worker coming slowly down towards them. A huge, hulking form, contrasting strongly with the slim one of the man waiting for him. Some of the miners glanced up at Talbot, wondering silently if he "funked it," but there was something in that attitude and that iron countenance that reassured them and stirred a dull admiration in their hearts. Talbot ...
— A Girl of the Klondike • Victoria Cross

... poor children know comparatively little of their miserable bringings-up. They have no opportunity of contrasting their life and belongings with those of other children more richly nurtured. The infant Jasmin slept no less soundly in his little cot stuffed with larks' feathers than if he had been laid on a bed of down. Then he was ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles

... blackish-gray cloud which flowed out into mist and against which the bright colors shone dazzlingly. Thousands of white gulls round about the ship, like a whirling, living snow flurry, glittering in the bright sunlight and contrasting sharply with the dark background of clouds - screaming and screeching wildly ...
— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden


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