contrasty
adjective
contrasty is an adjective meaning “Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does contrasty mean?
adjective
- 1
Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of contrasty
- more contrasty comparative
- most contrasty superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is contrasty?
Contrasty appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Contrasty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having great contrast:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | kontrastreich |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does contrasty come from?
From contrast + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).