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Synonyms for juxtaposed


Grammar : Verb
Spell : juhk-stuh-pohz, juhk-stuh-pohz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒʌk stəˌpoʊz, ˌdʒʌk stəˈpoʊz



Définition of juxtaposed

Origin :
  • 1851, from French juxtaposer (1835), from Latin iuxta (see juxtaposition) + French poser (see pose (v.1)). Related: Juxtaposed; juxtaposing.
  • verb place side by side
Example sentences :
  • When colours are juxtaposed, they become influenced as to their hue.
  • Extract from : « Principles of Decorative Design » by Christopher Dresser
  • Orlando and Adam, ill-fortune and good luck, are juxtaposed.
  • Extract from : « Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery » by George Henry Danton
  • In other words, they are not superposed, as in the human species, but juxtaposed.
  • Extract from : « Artistic Anatomy of Animals » by douard Cuyer
  • The most free and ruddy and brave of his pages are juxtaposed with some of the most soft and timid.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
  • If things may be juxtaposed they can be compared; if not, the comparison is bound to be bad.
  • Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
  • When they were together the Jacobean and the Victorian ages were juxtaposed.
  • Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
  • When a light colour is juxtaposed to a dark colour, the light colour appears lighter than it is, and the dark colour darker.
  • Extract from : « Principles of Decorative Design » by Christopher Dresser
  • It is known that juxtaposed colors generally enrich one another and this phenomenon is known as simultaneous contrast.
  • Extract from : « Artificial Light » by M. Luckiesh
  • His figures are outlined in broad black or coloured lines, and colours are juxtaposed with their complementaries.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright
  • In other juxtaposed twins the plane of composition is, however, not necessarily the twin-plane.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 » by Various

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