contrastful

English

Etymology

From contrast +‎ -ful.

Adjective

contrastful (comparative more contrastful, superlative most contrastful)

1. Marked by strong contrast; full of contrasts.
   • 1926 May 22, Morris Markey, “A Yankee Holiday”, in The New Yorker, volume 2, number 14, New York, N. Y.: F-R Pub. Corp., page 21:

     On the stage, the chief actor always wears the best clothes. He has the best lines to recite. And he has a whole flock of minor players who subdue themselves that his brilliance may be highly contrastful.

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “contrastful”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.