Antonyms for background
ˈbækˌgraʊndback·ground

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1. backgroundnoun

   a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

   "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

   Antonyms:
   highlight, play up, foreground, spotlight

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, screen background, desktop, background knowledge, backdrop, ground

2. background, groundnoun

   the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

   "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

   Antonyms:
   play up, foreground, spotlight, highlight

   Synonyms:
   screen background, setting, ground, priming coat, primer, background signal, soil, undercoat, basis, solid ground, dry land, primer coat, footing, land, priming, backcloth, background knowledge, scope, reason, flat coat, backdrop, desktop, earth, terra firma

3. background, background knowledgenoun

   information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

   "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

   Antonyms:
   foreground, spotlight, highlight, play up

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, screen background, desktop, background knowledge, backdrop, ground

4. background, background signalnoun

   extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

   "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

   Antonyms:
   foreground, spotlight, highlight, play up

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, screen background, desktop, background knowledge, backdrop, ground

5. backgroundnoun

   relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

   "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

   Antonyms:
   play up, spotlight, highlight, foreground

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, screen background, desktop, background knowledge, backdrop, ground

6. setting, background, scopenoun

   the state of the environment in which a situation exists

   "you can't do that in a university setting"

   Antonyms:
   play up, highlight, foreground, spotlight

   Synonyms:
   place setting, screen background, scene, compass, ground, telescope, background signal, circumstance, reach, cathode-ray oscilloscope, ambit, setting, range, mise en scene, oscilloscope, backcloth, background knowledge, scope, mount, orbit, backdrop, desktop, context, stage setting

7. background, desktop, screen backgroundnoun

   (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

   Antonyms:
   foreground, play up, highlight, spotlight

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, screen background, desktop, background knowledge, backdrop, ground

8. backdrop, background, backclothverb

   scenery hung at back of stage

   Antonyms:
   play up, highlight, foreground, spotlight

   Synonyms:
   setting, background signal, scope, backcloth, desktop, background knowledge, screen background, backdrop, ground

9. background, play down, downplayverb

   understate the importance or quality of

   "he played down his royal ancestry"

   Antonyms:
   highlight, foreground, play up, spotlight

   Synonyms:
   downplay, minimize, play down, understate, minimise

How to use background in a sentence?

1. Pete Buttigieg:

   We can get background checks done now. We can get red flag laws done now. We can get something done about the new sale of assault weapons now. We can not wait for these other debates to play out -- even if they're healthy debates -- to get that action done because Our Lives are on the line.

2. Hubert Malicote:

   My wife, with her music background, has been a choir director making cantatas for Christmastime, and she's done a real good job with it, i’ve always said that a happy home is where God is.

3. Lisa Murkowski:

   We've done some of our own background on some of the opinion that he has written. But my first look is that he certainly has the qualifications, but I know that there will be further process, there's a lot of work to be done before I think a real, fair analysis of Judge Judge Kavanaugh and Judge Kavanaugh qualifications to serve on our highest court.

4. Christopher Cardozo:

   I've sent exhibitions to 40 countries, from Papua New Guinea to South Africa to Paris, Finland, all over the world, and what we've seen is people responding to these images irrespective of their socioeconomic status, independent of their culture, independent of their educational background.

5. James Hartman:

   Before the passage of this initiative, the Department of Taxation had had no background, no experience at all with marijuana administration. We are alone in this very shortened process.

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