Definition of Contrastingly

1. Adverb. In a contrasting manner. "Contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced"

Partainyms: Contrasting

Definition of Contrastingly

1. Adverb. In a contrasting manner ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Contrastingly

contrast enema
contrast enhancement
contrast material
contrast media
contrast medium
contrast ratio
contrast sensitivity
contrast set
contrast stain
contrast transfer function
contrastable
contrasted
contrastimulant
contrastimulants
contrasting
contrastingly
contrastive
contrastively
contrastiveness
contrastivism
contrastivist
contrastivists
contrastivity
contrasts
contrasty
contrasuggestible
contrasuppressor cells
contrat
contrate
contratenor

Literary usage of Contrastingly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1905)
"(3) The discoidal spots are generally more contrastingly pale in discolor than ... and though in the latter species they are sometimes contrastingly pale, ..."

2. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"Ground color of medial area red, of subterminal area contrastingly paler gray 15 ... Eyes moderate or large, reniform when contrastingly pale, composed of a ..."

3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1896)
"It is, however, more broadly and contrastingly colored than any other species in this series, and should, ..."

4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"This dark, contrastingly marked, form is usually $ . Both sexes differ in the distinctness of the discal spot, which, in some, is quite conspicuous, ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"The tempero- sphenoidal and occipital lobes on both sides were contrastingly well nourished. The case illustrates again the location of the centres of ..."

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