Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb contrast

2 senses of contrast

Sense 1
contrast -- (put in opposition to show or emphasize differences; "The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student")
       => distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart -- (mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple")

Sense 2
contrast, counterpoint -- (to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities")
       => differ -- (be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect")

Antonyms of adj contrasting

1 sense of contrasting

Sense 1
contrasting, contrastive -- (strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors")

INDIRECT (VIA different) -> same -- (closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree; "curtains the same color as the walls"; "two girls of the same age"; "mother and son have the same blue eyes"; "animals of the same species"; "the same rules as before"; "two boxes having the same dimensions"; "the same day next year")

Similarity of adj contrasting

1 sense of contrasting

Sense 1
contrasting, contrastive -- (strikingly different; tending to contrast; "contrasting (or contrastive) colors")
       => different (vs. same) -- (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree; "took different approaches to the problem"; "came to a different conclusion"; "different parts of the country"; "on different sides of the issue"; "this meeting was different from the earlier one")