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Downplaying

verb
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
"He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey."
2.nounThe act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important.

Synonyms

trivializeunderstateminimizationminimisationwaningoverpoweringminimizingunderestimatingunderplaydwarfingdownplayerdownweighting

Rhymes With

brayingswayingslayingplayingflayingsurveyingdecayingpraying
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