direct contrast

1. 1.

   the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared

   “in contrast to”

   “by contrast”

   Synonymscontrast

   Broaderopposition

Questions about direct contrast

What does direct contrast mean?

direct contrast means "the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared".

What is another word for direct contrast?

Close synonyms include contrast. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is direct contrast a common word?

direct contrast is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.