play down
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
understate the importance or quality of
he played down his royal ancestry
Types & categories
- accent hypernym
- wave off hyponym
- soft-pedal hyponym
Related & opposite
- foreground antonym
- background derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | foreground |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | background |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | accent |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wave off |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | soft-pedal |