DOWNPLAY Synonyms

• make trivial or insignificant

• understate the importance or quality of

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• express a negative opinion of

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• reduce the emphasis

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• make less complex

• bring to humbler or weaker state or condition

• simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

• lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation

• be the essential element

• reduce in size; reduce physically

• lessen and make more modest

• make smaller

• to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

• narrow or limit

• put down by force or intimidation

• undergo meiosis

• reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

• destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• be cooked until very little liquid is left

• cook until very little liquid is left

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• take off weight

• an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value

• assign too low a value to

• make a deliberately low estimate

• make too low an estimate of

• make too low an estimate of

• represent as less significant or important

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of

• represent as less significant or important

• make small or insignificant