What are the opposite words for play down?
The term "play down" means to minimize, reduce or underestimate the importance of something. The opposite of play down would be to magnify, emphasize or accentuate. To magnify means to make something larger, to emphasize means to show importance or focus on something, and to accentuate means to highlight, make something more noticeable or draw attention to it. These antonyms of "play down" can be very useful in situations where it's important to convey the full impact, importance or severity of something, as opposed to making it seem less significant.
- intensify
-
increase
- mark up,
- slap on,
- snowball,
- tack on,
- tripling,
- Tripled,
- dis tend,
- dis tended,
- dis tending,
- dis tends,
- dis-tend,
- dis-tended,
- dis-tending,
- dis-tends,
- in crease,
- in creases,
- in creasing,
- in-crease,
- in-creased,
- in-creases,
- marked up,
- marking up,
- marks up,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro tract,
- pro tracts,
- pro-long,
- pro-longed,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- pro-tract,
- pro-tracts,
- re double,
- re doubled,
- re doubles,
- re doubling,
- re-double,
- re-doubled,
- re-doubles,
- re-doubling,
- slapped on,
- slapping on,
- tacked on,
- tacking on,
- tacks on.
-
exaggerate
- misquote,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overstate,
- pretty up,
- Caricatured,
- Caricaturing,
- Misreport,
- Overdrew,
- Overdrawn,
- Overdrawing,
- Romanced,
- Romancing,
- overestimated,
- overestimates,
- overestimating,
- misquotes,
- overemphasizes,
- overemphasized,
- misreporting,
- scamming,
- scammed,
- misreported,
- over-estimate,
- go to extremes,
- lay it on thick,
- make too much of,
- blow out of proportion,
- blew out of proportion,
- blew out proportion,
- blow out proportion,
- blowing out of proportion,
- blowing out proportion,
- blows out of proportion,
- blows out proportion,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- dis tort,
- dis torts,
- dis-tort,
- dis-torts,
- go extremes,
- goes extremes,
- goes to extremes,
- going extremes,
- going to extremes,
- laid it on thick,
- laid it thick,
- laid on thick,
- laid thick,
- lay it thick,
- lay on thick,
- lay thick,
- laying it on thick,
- laying it thick,
- laying on thick,
- laying thick,
- lays it on thick,
- lays it thick,
- lays on thick,
- lays thick,
- loud talk,
- loud talked,
- loud talking,
- loud talks,
- made too much of,
- makes too much of,
- making too much of,
- mis quote,
- mis quoted,
- mis quotes,
- mis quoting,
- mis report,
- mis reported,
- mis reporting,
- mis reports,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis-quote,
- mis-quoted,
- mis-quotes,
- mis-quoting,
- mis-report,
- mis-reported,
- mis-reporting,
- mis-reports,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- misreports,
- over draw,
- over drawing,
- over drawn,
- over draws,
- over drew,
- over emphasize,
- over emphasized,
- over emphasizes,
- over emphasizing,
- over estimate,
- over estimated,
- over estimates,
- over estimating,
- over-does,
- over-draw,
- over-drawing,
- over-drawn,
- over-draws,
- over-drew,
- over-emphasize,
- over-emphasizes,
- over-emphasizing,
- over-estimated,
- over-estimates,
- over-estimating,
- overdraws,
- prettied up,
- pretties up,
- prettying up,
- went extremes,
- went to extremes.
- aggravate
- amplify
- build up
- express emotion
- multiply
-
overdo
- laying on,
- overtax,
- overtire,
- overvalue,
- Overvalued,
- Overvaluing,
- overvalues,
- overtaxed,
- overtired,
- overtires,
- overtaxing,
- overuses,
- lay it on,
- lay on,
- talk big,
- over-burden,
- over-burdening,
- over-burdened,
- run into the ground,
- do to death,
- over-wrought,
- over reach,
- are intemperate,
- art intemperate,
- be intemperate,
- be labor,
- be labored,
- be laboring,
- be labors,
- be-labor,
- be-labored,
- be-laboring,
- be-labors,
- being intemperate,
- bit off too much,
- bit too much,
- bite off too much,
- bite too much,
- bites off too much,
- bites too much,
- biting off too much,
- biting too much,
- did death,
- did to death,
- didst death,
- didst to death,
- do death,
- does death,
- does to death,
- doest death,
- doest to death,
- doeth death,
- doeth to death,
- doing death,
- doing to death,
- dost death,
- dost to death,
- doth death,
- doth to death,
- drave oneself,
- drive oneself,
- drives oneself,
- driving oneself,
- drove oneself,
- go overboard,
- goes overboard,
- going overboard,
- is intemperate,
- laid it on,
- laid on,
- laying it on,
- lays it on,
- made federal case,
- make federal case,
- making federal case,
- not know when stop,
- not know when to stop,
- over burden,
- over burdened,
- over burdening,
- over burdens,
- over did,
- over does,
- over doing,
- over done,
- over indulge,
- over indulged,
- over indulges,
- over indulging,
- over loaded,
- over loading,
- over loads,
- over reached,
- over reaches,
- over reaching,
- over tax,
- over taxes,
- over taxing,
- over tire,
- over tired,
- over tires,
- over tiring,
- over used,
- over using,
- over value,
- over valued,
- over values,
- over valuing,
- over worked,
- over working,
- over works,
- over-did,
- over-doing,
- over-indulge,
- over-indulged,
- over-indulges,
- over-indulging,
- over-load,
- over-loaded,
- over-loading,
- over-loads,
- over-reach,
- over-reaches,
- over-reaching,
- over-tax,
- over-taxed,
- over-taxes,
- over-taxing,
- over-tire,
- over-tired,
- over-tires,
- over-tiring,
- over-used,
- over-using,
- over-value,
- over-valued,
- over-valuing,
- over-worked,
- over-works,
- overtaxes,
- piled on,
- piles on,
- ran in to ground,
- ran in to the ground,
- ran into ground,
- ran into the ground,
- run in to ground,
- run in to the ground,
- run into ground,
- running in to ground,
- running in to the ground,
- running into ground,
- running into the ground,
- runs in to ground,
- runs in to the ground,
- runs into ground,
- strain oneself,
- strained oneself,
- strains oneself,
- talked big,
- talking big,
- was intemperate,
- wast intemperate,
- wear oneself out,
- wearing oneself out,
- went overboard,
- went too far,
- wore oneself out.
-
overplay
- maximize,
- overuse,
- maximized,
- gat carried away,
- get carried away,
- gets carried away,
- getting carried away,
- got carried away,
- gotten carried away,
- labor at,
- labored at,
- laboring at,
- labors at,
- over play,
- over played,
- over playing,
- over plays,
- over work,
- over-play,
- over-played,
- over-playing,
- over-plays,
- over-work,
- over-working,
- overusing.
-
play up
- call attention to,
- calling attention to,
- bring fore,
- bring the fore,
- bring to fore,
- bring to the fore,
- bringing fore,
- bringing the fore,
- bringing to fore,
- bringing to the fore,
- brings fore,
- brings the fore,
- brings to fore,
- brings to the fore,
- brought fore,
- brought the fore,
- brought to fore,
- brought to the fore,
- called attention to,
- calls attention to,
- made a production of,
- made production of,
- make a production of,
- make production of,
- making a production of,
- making production of,
- turn spotlight on,
- turned spotlight on,
- turning spotlight on,
- turns spotlight on.
-
raise
- fetch up,
- forgather,
- shoot up,
- Massing,
- gooses,
- goosing,
- forgathering,
- forgathers,
- forgathered,
- shooting up,
- congressed,
- congressing,
- fetched up,
- goose up,
- goosed,
- goosed up,
- gooses up,
- goosing up,
- send through roof,
- send through the roof,
- sending through roof,
- sending through the roof,
- sends through roof,
- sends through the roof,
- sent through roof,
- sent through the roof,
- shoots up.
- reinforce
-
emphasize
- highlighting,
- make a point,
- play up,
- point up,
- pointing out,
- weighted,
- weighting,
- pointed out,
- headlined,
- highlighted,
- headlining,
- insist on,
- make much of,
- rub in,
- Head-line,
- make clear,
- labor the point,
- made clear,
- insisting on,
- making clear,
- making much of,
- pointing up,
- under-lining,
- head lined,
- head lines,
- head lining,
- head-lined,
- head-lining,
- insisted on,
- insists on,
- labor point,
- labored point,
- labored the point,
- laboring point,
- laboring the point,
- labors point,
- labors the point,
- limelighted,
- limelighting,
- made a point,
- made emphatic,
- made much of,
- made point,
- make point,
- makes a point,
- makes clear,
- makes emphatic,
- makes much of,
- makes point,
- making a point,
- making emphatic,
- making point,
- pointed up,
- points up,
- put accent on,
- puts accent on,
- putting accent on,
- re iterate,
- re iterated,
- re iterates,
- re iterating,
- re peat,
- re peats,
- re-iterate,
- re-iterated,
- re-iterates,
- re-iterating,
- re-peat,
- re-peats,
- rubbed in,
- rubbing in,
- rubs in,
- under line,
- under lined,
- under lines,
- under lining,
- under score,
- under-line,
- under-lined,
- under-lines,
- under-score,
- under-scored,
- under-scores,
- under-scoring.
- enhance
- inflate
-
magnify
- overstress,
- run up,
- overstresses,
- jump up,
- jumps up,
- made mountain molehill,
- made mountain of molehill,
- make mountain molehill,
- make mountain of molehill,
- makes mountain molehill,
- makes mountain of molehill,
- making mountain molehill,
- making mountain of molehill,
- over charge,
- over charged,
- over charges,
- over charging,
- over stress,
- over stressed,
- over stresses,
- over stressing,
- over-charge,
- over-charged,
- over-charges,
- over-charging,
- over-stress,
- over-stressed,
- over-stresses,
- over-stressing,
- overstressed,
- overstressing,
- ran up,
- running up,
- runs up.
- overstate
- pad
- snowball
- cause to become worse
- increase in size or effect
-
overrate
- overpraise,
- Overpraising,
- Overprize,
- Overreckon,
- Oversold,
- Overselling,
- Oversell,
- overpraised,
- overpraises,
- overprized,
- overprizes,
- assess too highly,
- assessed too highly,
- assesses too highly,
- assessing too highly,
- expect too much of,
- expected too much of,
- expecting too much of,
- expects too much of,
- over assess,
- over assessed,
- over assesses,
- over assessing,
- over esteem,
- over esteemed,
- over esteeming,
- over esteems,
- over praised,
- over praises,
- over praising,
- over prize,
- over prized,
- over prizes,
- over rate,
- over rated,
- over rates,
- over rating,
- over reckon,
- over reckoned,
- over reckoning,
- over reckons,
- over sell,
- over selling,
- over sells,
- over-assess,
- over-assessed,
- over-assessing,
- over-esteem,
- over-esteeming,
- over-esteems,
- over-praise,
- over-praised,
- over-praises,
- over-praising,
- over-prize,
- over-prized,
- over-prizing,
- over-rate,
- over-rated,
- over-rates,
- over-rating,
- over-reckon,
- over-reckoned,
- over-reckoning,
- over-reckons,
- over-sell,
- over-selling,
- over-sells,
- over-sold,
- overassessed,
- overassesses,
- overassessing,
- overesteem,
- overesteemed,
- overesteeming,
- overesteems,
- overprizing,
- overreckoned,
- overreckons,
- oversells,
- rate too highly,
- rated too highly,
- rates too highly,
- rating too highly,
- think too highly of,
- think too much of,
- thinking too highly of,
- thinking too much of,
- thinks too highly of,
- thinks too much of,
- thought too highly of,
- thought too much of.
- amplify, advertise
- stress, give priority to
- improve, embellish
- overstate, embellish
- add or grow
- make more forceful, severe
- enlarge, intensify
- increase; reproduce
-
emote
- overact,
- overacting,
- overdramatize,
- overacts,
- over act,
- over acted,
- over acting,
- over acts,
- over dramatize,
- over dramatized,
- over dramatizes,
- over dramatizing,
- over-act,
- over-acted,
- over-acting,
- over-acts,
- over-dramatize,
- over-dramatized,
- over-dramatizes,
- over-dramatizing,
- overdramatized,
- overdramatizes.
- be dramatic
- assign too much value, importance
- pretend as if something were unimportant
- increase, augment
- strengthen, augment
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Other relevant words
- acclaim,
- applaud,
- approve,
- commend,
- compliment,
- countenance,
- elaborate,
- embellish,
- embroider,
- endorse,
- eulogize,
- exalt,
- extol,
- favor,
- foreground,
- fudge,
- glorify,
- hedge,
- highlight,
- laud,
- magnify,
- overdo,
- overdraw,
- overemphasize,
- overplay,
- overstate,
- pad,
- praise,
- recommend,
- sanction,
- spotlight,
- stretch,
- sensationalize.
Antonym of the day
wert conscious of
- Antonyms:
- criticize, decrease, depreciate.
