| VERB | communication | downplay, understate, minimize, minimise | represent as less significant or important |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | downplay, background, play down | understate the importance or quality of |
| Sounds | daw'npley. | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | AAA ... waylay: 40 rhymes with ley... | |
| Meaning | represent as less significant or important. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | understate, minimize, minimise | |
| Entailed by | sandbag | downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game / game / game in order to deceive, as in gambling |
| Narrower | trivialize, trivialise | make trivial or insignificant |
| Broader | inform | Impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to |
| Opposite | overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify | To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth |
| Spanish | minimizar | |
| Meaning | understate the importance or quality of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | background, play down | |
| Narrower | soft-pedal | play down or obscure / obscure |
| wave off | dismiss as insignificant | |
| Broader | stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate | To stress, single out as important |
| Opposite | foreground, highlight, spotlight, play up | Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent |
| Spanish | acomodar, mimetizar, minimizar | |
| Catalan | acomodar, mimetitzar | |
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