OVERDRAMATIZES Antonyms

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• represent as less significant or important

• understate the importance or quality of

• make small or insignificant

• represent as less significant or important

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results

• think rationally; employ logic or reason

• remove irrational quantities from

• make trivial or insignificant

• act (a role) with great restraint

• play a card lower than (a held high card)

• represent as less significant or important