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The opposite of "emphasize" is "downplay." While to emphasize means to highlight or stress the importance of something, downplaying involves making something seem less significant or reducing its importance. Other antonyms include "minimize" or "diminish."
To downplay
During a job interview, it's a good idea to highlight your accomplishments and downplay your weaknesses.
An opposite of the word "to" is from.
The opposite of up is down. So, opposite of the opposite of up is up itself.
The police are trying to downplay the current rise in violence.
To downplay
During a job interview, it's a good idea to highlight your accomplishments and downplay your weaknesses.
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To downplay the emphasis of a dependent clause, place it within the sentence, but not at the beginning or at the end. Here's an example: The toy truck, which had bright red decals, was zooming down the driveway.
Understatement is a literary device that is used to downplay a meaning or make something seem less important or serious than it actually is. It often involves a deliberate understating of the magnitude or significance of a situation for effect.
Synonyms for underscore include emphasize, accentuate, highlight, intensify, stress, underline, advertize, stress, spotlight etc. Opposites to these different words can therefore serve, to different extends, as opposites to underscore. But two are particularly as they appear to mean the same as underscore, i.e., "understate" and "downplay"!
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He says he's 6'3" but in reality he is about 6'4". Many tall actors downplay their height.
Richard Nixon, in his famous "Checkers speech"
She was known for her modesty, always preferring to downplay her achievements and give credit to others.
Comes from the song "Queen Of New York City" by the band Downplay.