deemphasizing
Reducing in importance
Deemphasizing is reducing the importance or prominence given to something.
A company might deemphasize a troubled product line, or a politician might deemphasize unpopular positions during a campaign.
The word suggests a deliberate shift in attention or priority: The new curriculum deemphasizes rote memorization in favor of critical thinking.
Deliberately understating something
- soft-pedalingUnderstating something deliberately
- playing downMinimizing importance of something
- understatingRepresenting as less significant
- minimizingReducing to smallest extent
trivializing · diminishing · lessening · reducing · mitigating · tempering · moderating · toning down
Removing from participation
- neglectingFailing to attend to
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
- disregardingDeliberately not considering
- ignoringDeliberately not noticing
discounting · dismissing · relegating · subordinating · deprioritizing · shelving · backburnering · excluding
Obscuring by surpassing
- obscuringMaking less visible
- outshiningSurpassing in brilliance
- dominatingExercising supreme control
- dwarfingMaking appear small
dimming · veiling · clouding · masking · burying · drowning out · overpowering · upstaging
underplaying
Deliberately understating something
- soft-pedalingUnderstating something deliberately
- playing downMinimizing importance of something
- understatingRepresenting as less significant
minimizing · trivializing · diminishing · lessening · reducing · mitigating · tempering · moderating · toning down · muting
sidelining
Removing from participation
- neglectingFailing to attend to
- overlookingFailing to see or consider
- disregardingDeliberately not considering
ignoring · discounting · dismissing · relegating · subordinating · deprioritizing · shelving · backburnering · excluding · peripheral
eclipsing
Obscuring by surpassing
- obscuringMaking less visible
- outshiningSurpassing in brilliance
- dominatingExercising supreme control
dwarfing · dimming · veiling · clouding · masking · burying · drowning out · overpowering · upstaging · superseding
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Giving special importance to
stressing · highlighting · accentuating · underscoring · foregrounding
deemphasizingplaying up
Emphasizing excessively
talking up · hyping · trumpeting · dramatizing · amplifying
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