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contrasty

adj

Etymology

From contrast + -y.

  1. derived from contrā
  2. derived from contrastare
  3. borrowed from contraster
  4. suffixed as contrasty — “contrast + y”

Definitions

  1. Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).

    • His inherently less contrasty and detailed paper negative work, toward the end of his life, is at least more ambivalent and not so cold.
    • The WFM display above shows a very contrasty picture with clipped whites and blacks.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contrasty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contrasty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at contrasty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA