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Definition: Contrasty |
ContrastyAdjective1. (photography) having sharp differences between black and white. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | The paper grades are usually classified by each maker according to his own ideas. . . no 3: --, hard, contrasty. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Antonym: flat (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Contrasty |
| Specialty definitions using "contrasty": ultra contrasty, ultra hard, ultra vigorous ♦ vigourous. (references) |
| "Contrasty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contrasty" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "contrasty": ultra contrasty. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "contrasty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Dutch | contrastrijk (hard, of high contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | contrasté (of high contrast), vigoureux, dur, à grand contraste (of high contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | kontrastreich (hard, of high contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | a contrasto forte (hard, of high contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontrastycay ton farkları çok olan, kontrastlı. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: contrast, cryostat. | |
-2 letters: aroynts, attorns, cantors, cartons, contras, cottars, cratons, crayons, octants, rattons, tyrants. | |
-3 letters: acorns, actors, aroynt, astony, attorn, cantor, cantos, carton, castor, contra, costar, cotans, cottar, cottas, craton, crayon, cytons, narcos, notary, octans, octant, ottars, racons, ratton, rayons, scanty, scatty, scrota, snotty, stator, tarocs, tarots, toasty, tracts, tronas, tyrant. | |
-4 letters: acorn, actor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: countryseat. | |
+3 letters: countryseats. | |
+4 letters: anfractuosity, constellatory, contrastively, sacrosanctity. | |
+5 letters: unsatisfactory. | |
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