CONTRASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contrasting mean? 

• CONTRASTING (adjective)
  The adjective CONTRASTING has 1 sense:

1. strikingly different; tending to contrast

  Familiarity information: CONTRASTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRASTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strikingly different; tending to contrast

Synonyms:

contrasting; contrastive

Context example:

contrasting (or contrastive) colors

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

 Context examples 

An imbalance in the regulation of two contrasting events, bone resorption and bone formation, results in many of the metabolic bone diseases, such as OSTEOPOROSIS.

(Innate Bone Remodeling, NCI Thesaurus)

The keratinocyte differentiation cascades also provide for detailed study of the functions of individual PKC isoforms and it is interesting to note the contrasting functions of the PKC isoforms in this process.

(Keratinocyte Differentiation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Ned Moffat had just married Sallie Gardiner, and Meg couldn't help contrasting their fine house and carriage, many gifts, and splendid outfit with her own, and secretly wishing she could have the same.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A contrasting agent is injected through the skin into the liver or bile duct, and the ducts are then x-rayed to find the point of obstruction.

(Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, NCI Dictionary)

Contrasting activities of DNA topoisomerase I and DNA gyrase result in the maintenance of DNA topological homeostasis.

(DNA Topology Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)

The enormous diversity of traits and species that we see in modern plants today speaks to the millions of years of evolution that enabled plants to survive in dynamic and contrasting environments across the globe.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Will you walk this way, ma'am? said the girl; and I followed her across a square hall with high doors all round: she ushered me into a room whose double illumination of fire and candle at first dazzled me, contrasting as it did with the darkness to which my eyes had been for two hours inured; when I could see, however, a cosy and agreeable picture presented itself to my view.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, dear, yes, Master Copperfield, he proceeded, in a soft voice, most remarkably contrasting with the action of his thumb, which did not diminish its hard pressure in the least degree, there's no doubt of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)