Synonyms for play down
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Verb
1. Downplay
downplay, make little of, make nothing of, background, minimize, minimise UK, de-emphasize, deemphasise UK, belittle, trivialize, trivialise UK, deprecate, underplay
Other
superficialize rare, superficialise UK
Definitions
- v. 1
To make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious.
The senator played down the threat of a recession.
Example sentences
- background Sami complained about the noise in the background.
- downplay If you try to downplay this, I'm going to walk away.
By length
- 8 letters
- minimize3, minimise, downplay2, belittle3
- 9 letters
- deprecate3, underplay3
- 10 letters
- background2, trivialize4, trivialise
- 11 letters
- deemphasise
- 14 letters
- superficialize, superficialise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (minimize3 = 3 syllables).