Synonyms for Background:

• n.

  •
  • word,
  • findings,
  • news,
  • fact,
  • detail,
  • data,
  • information,
  • A to Z,
  • report,
  • datum.
  •
  • knowledge,
  • past,
  • conditions,
  • training,
  • qualifications,
  • history,
  • upbringing,
  • credentials.
  •
  • call,
  • business,
  • happen,
  • calling.
  •
  • class,
  • beginnings.
  •accompaniment (noun)
  • instrument,
  • back-ups,
  • back-up.
  •attribute (noun)
  • background.
  •backcloth (noun)
  • backcloth.
  •backdrop (noun)
  • backdrop.
  •background (noun)
  • scope,
  • background knowledge,
  • screen background,
  • desktop,
  • play down,
  • setting,
  • background signal,
  • ground,
  • downplay.
  •basis (noun)
  • pre mise,
  • ex planations,
  • pre mises,
  • sub-stratum,
  • infra structure,
  • sub strata,
  • pre-suppositions,
  • sub stratum,
  • pre-supposition,
  • sub stratums,
  • under-pinning,
  • infra structures,
  • ex-planation,
  • under pinning,
  • principal elements,
  • ex-planations,
  • sub-strata,
  • ex planation,
  • sub-stratums,
  • chief ingredients,
  • infra-structures,
  • pre-mise,
  • pre supposition,
  • pre-mises,
  • pre suppositions.
  •birth (noun)
  • ex traction,
  • ex-traction,
  • ex tractions,
  • de-scent,
  • de-scents,
  • de scents,
  • fore bears,
  • fore bear,
  • fore-bear,
  • fore-bears,
  • ex-tractions,
  • de scent,
  • heritances.
  •caste (noun)
  • caste.
  •context (noun)
  • frame of reference,
  • lexicon.
  •contrast (noun)
  • foil.
  •education (noun)
  • proselytism,
  • Propagandism,
  • pedagogy,
  • Pedagogics,
  • in formation,
  • inculcation,
  • book learning,
  • learnedness,
  • drillings,
  • apprenticeship,
  • schooling,
  • apprenticeships.
  •environment (noun)
  • surroundings,
  • terrain,
  • neck of woods,
  • turf,
  • stomping grounds,
  • entourage,
  • stomping ground,
  • encompassment.
  •experience (noun)
  • proficiency,
  • savoir-faire,
  • wisdom,
  • sophistication,
  • wit,
  • experience,
  • time,
  • competence.
  •experience or circumstances (noun)
  • acquirement,
  • actions,
  • framework,
  • attainment,
  • grounding,
  • culture,
  • tradition,
  • cultivation,
  • capacity,
  • accomplishments,
  • rearing,
  • qualification,
  • seasoning,
  • deeds,
  • breeding.
  •family tree (noun)
  • Family.
  •foil (noun)
  • de-fenses,
  • de fenses,
  • counter-blow,
  • anti thesis,
  • anti-thesis,
  • counter-blows,
  • counter blows.
  •groundwork (noun)
  • groundwork,
  • understructure.
  •interference (noun)
  • barrings,
  • cloggings,
  • tacklings,
  • backseat driving,
  • meddlesomenesses,
  • trespassings,
  • inter meddling,
  • barging ins,
  • inter-meddling,
  • inter-position,
  • inter-positions,
  • pryings,
  • inter positions,
  • backseat drivings,
  • hamperings,
  • interpositions,
  • blockings,
  • tamperings,
  • inter position,
  • intermeddlings.
  •know-how (noun)
  • ex pertnesses,
  • ex-pertness,
  • know how,
  • ex-pertnesses,
  • ex pertness.
  •milieu (noun)
  • NABE,
  • ambients,
  • mise-en-scene,
  • nabes,
  • ambient.
  •practice (noun)
  • re-citation,
  • recountings,
  • tuneups,
  • re-petitions,
  • work-outs,
  • re citations,
  • re-counting,
  • re-citations,
  • relatings,
  • re petition,
  • tune ups,
  • work outs,
  • re petitions,
  • tuneup,
  • re-petition,
  • tune-ups,
  • re counting,
  • preppings,
  • re citation.
  •preparation (noun)
  • schoolwork,
  • incubations,
  • lead time,
  • substructure,
  • tryout,
  • incubation,
  • getting ready,
  • build-ups,
  • substructures,
  • making ready,
  • build-up,
  • gestation,
  • putting in order.
  •roots (noun)
  • family histories.
  •scene (noun)
  • dis-plays,
  • out-look,
  • dis-play,
  • dis plays,
  • re-presentations,
  • out looks,
  • re presentation,
  • out-looks,
  • dis play,
  • re presentations,
  • out look.
  •stock (noun)
  • line descent.
  •surroundings (noun)
  • sur roundings,
  • sur-roundings.
  •training (noun)
  • warmups,
  • warmup,
  • up-bringing,
  • chalk talks,
  • domestications,
  • warm ups,
  • up bringing.
  •unobtrusive (noun)
  • retiring,
  • out of sight,
  • withdrawn,
  • un.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • livelihood,
  • career,
  • magnum opus,
  • meritocracy,
  • job-sharing,
  • hierarchical,
  • situation,
  • off-site,
  • pros and cons,
  • climate,
  • incumbency,
  • condition,
  • writing,
  • populist,
  • opportunity,
  • objet d'art,
  • encounter,
  • order book,
  • snob,
  • workload,
  • egalitarian,
  • job security,
  • professional development,
  • working life,
  • bourgeois,
  • hot desking,
  • fine art,
  • creation,
  • work of art,
  • pix,
  • irony,
  • period piece,
  • chef-d'oeuvre,
  • probation,
  • eventuality,
  • stratification,
  • event,
  • scenario,
  • classism,
  • division of labor,
  • the status quo,
  • noblesse oblige,
  • occasion,
  • vacancy,
  • palimpsest,
  • masterpiece,
  • portfolio working,
  • job description,
  • class struggle,
  • masterwork,
  • beneath,
  • extenuating circumstances,
  • occupational,
  • melting pot,
  • oeuvre,
  • class-conscious,
  • dimension,
  • working practices,
  • back catalog,
  • state of affairs,
  • state of play,
  • work experience,
  • metier,
  • classless,
  • landscaping,
  • the bourgeoisie.
  •
  • distance,
  • delegation,
  • assemblage,
  • gig,
  • circumstances,
  • slot,
  • ability,
  • taste,
  • profession,
  • matter,
  • life history,
  • imagery,
  • position,
  • dynamic,
  • genteel,
  • stratified,
  • tenure,
  • stage,
  • affair,
  • kaleidoscope,
  • record,
  • estate,
  • seedbed,
  • beginning,
  • deal,
  • locus,
  • pressure,
  • trickle down,
  • pluralism,
  • collaboration,
  • artwork,
  • sustenance,
  • employment,
  • birth,
  • composition,
  • contingency,
  • feature.
  •
  • hierarchy,
  • opus,
  • equation,
  • job,
  • OP,
  • canon,
  • water,
  • development,
  • socially,
  • appointment,
  • image,
  • start out.
  •
  • labor,
  • opening,
  • go,
  • front,
  • world,
  • matrix,
  • society,
  • professionally,
  • art,
  • thing,
  • load.
  •
  • professional,
  • proposition,
  • way,
  • trade,
  • piece.
  •
  • function,
  • case,
  • work,
  • picture.
  •
  • order,
  • term.
  •
  • service.
  •
  • line.
  •preliminary
  • introductory.
  •Other relevant words:
  • hall,
  • scene of action,
  • plutonium,
  • unsuspected,
  • derivation,
  • location,
  • gymnasium,
  • hugger mugger,
  • figure,
  • out of favor,
  • athletic field,
  • true,
  • surround,
  • incident,
  • soil,
  • plan,
  • characterization,
  • deny oneself,
  • ambit,
  • range,
  • Underpinning,
  • cultural,
  • suavity,
  • suppress,
  • final,
  • enlightening,
  • accentuate,
  • oscilloscope,
  • bowl,
  • tone,
  • compass,
  • catastrophe,
  • elegance,
  • Alpha Particles,
  • mounting,
  • pertinent,
  • between the lines,
  • structure,
  • pedigree,
  • sphere,
  • downtrodden,
  • mount,
  • curriculum vitae,
  • stride,
  • ancestry,
  • dark,
  • pit,
  • Moxa,
  • ground color,
  • instructive,
  • nitric acid,
  • obscure,
  • panorama,
  • complication,
  • urbanity,
  • keep dark,
  • lineage,
  • educative,
  • platform,
  • retire,
  • floor,
  • sagacity,
  • gimmick,
  • wrestling ring,
  • style,
  • pattern,
  • unobtrusive,
  • contrivance,
  • supreme,
  • lifetime,
  • put out,
  • whereabouts,
  • eclipse,
  • auditorium,
  • radioactive isotopes,
  • form,
  • Catheretic,
  • acid,
  • reserve,
  • mat,
  • blend in,
  • earth,
  • placement,
  • in bad repute,
  • keep secret,
  • proper,
  • on the sly,
  • action,
  • farness,
  • place,
  • invisible,
  • scheme,
  • radium,
  • theater,
  • scenery,
  • tempering,
  • circus,
  • informative,
  • academic,
  • rear,
  • area,
  • overshadow,
  • hush up,
  • keep one's distance,
  • peripeteia,
  • backgrounder,
  • campus,
  • element,
  • frame,
  • horizon,
  • stadium,
  • under the rose,
  • foundation,
  • radioactivity,
  • radon,
  • Indiscoverable,
  • topic,
  • switch,
  • principle,
  • colosseum,
  • touch,
  • elongation,
  • personal history,
  • at a discount,
  • experiences,
  • discernment,
  • caustic,
  • mythos,
  • shut oneself up,
  • prize ring,
  • erudition,
  • tiltyard,
  • unnoticed,
  • argument,
  • public square,
  • marketplace,
  • architecture,
  • strain,
  • Gamma rays,
  • Circumambient,
  • priming,
  • primer coat,
  • stand,
  • boxing ring,
  • terra firma,
  • out of fashion,
  • parentage,
  • device,
  • obscurity,
  • educational,
  • punctuate,
  • heritage,
  • span,
  • cauterizer,
  • plot,
  • refinement,
  • minimise,
  • lifestyle,
  • descendants,
  • existence,
  • stage setting,
  • priming coat,
  • hold oneself aloof,
  • bottom,
  • arrangement,
  • learning,
  • proportionate,
  • life,
  • fable,
  • Beta rays,
  • januis clausis,
  • offing,
  • theme,
  • stifle,
  • environs,
  • set,
  • biography,
  • basic,
  • rank,
  • habitat,
  • palaestra,
  • wave off,
  • Aqua Fortis,
  • enlightenment,
  • primer,
  • smother,
  • keep back,
  • vanishing point,
  • forum,
  • alkali,
  • base,
  • spot,
  • angle,
  • slant,
  • instructional,
  • view,
  • secretly,
  • locale,
  • in the shade,
  • hinterland,
  • in the background,
  • behind one's back,
  • pedagogic,
  • background detail,
  • with bated breath,
  • keep to oneself,
  • cockpit,
  • emphasise,
  • design,
  • backstage,
  • Purlieu,
  • bull ring,
  • emphasize,
  • unknown,
  • recognition,
  • radiation,
  • impenetrable,
  • dry land,
  • twist,
  • ring,
  • parallax,
  • discrimination,
  • ambience,
  • race,
  • movement,
  • abandon,
  • Aqua Regia,
  • last part,
  • underside,
  • arena,
  • rear guard,
  • episode,
  • posteriority,
  • Apozem,
  • subject,
  • uranium,
  • practises,
  • adventures,
  • behind,
  • subplot,
  • land,
  • rusticate,
  • aside,
  • backing,
  • edifying,
  • keep from,
  • conclusive,
  • look foolish,
  • keep aloof,
  • ignore,
  • lists,
  • inconspicuous,
  • bury,
  • ambiance,
  • worldly wisdom,
  • support,
  • in the rear,
  • mood,
  • keep close,
  • rising action,
  • space,
  • motif,
  • precinct,
  • town centre,
  • story,
  • lunar caustic,
  • relative,
  • bloodline,
  • out of countenance,
  • antecedents,
  • Anagnorisis,
  • disgraced,
  • look blue,
  • agora,
  • cosmic radiation,
  • appropriate,
  • Removedness,
  • background music,
  • site,
  • coliseum,
  • extraction,
  • falling action,
  • sink,
  • Unspied,
  • unapparent,
  • fundamental principle,
  • amphitheatre,
  • Longinquity,
  • field,
  • color,
  • blaseness,
  • continuity,
  • withhold,
  • reach,
  • in a whisper,
  • architectonics,
  • precincts,
  • remoteness,
  • denouement,
  • circumstance,
  • medium,
  • unintelligible,
  • place setting,
  • modesty,
  • sotto voce,
  • accompaniment,
  • take the veil,
  • course,
  • bottom-up,
  • cv,
  • amphitheater,
  • walk,
  • bear garden,
  • telescope,
  • canvas,
  • under a cloud,
  • humility,
  • unseen,
  • play second fiddle,
  • apt,
  • back,
  • flat coat,
  • tritium,
  • local color,
  • ultimate,
  • outshine,
  • understate,
  • stage set,
  • overcome,
  • home,
  • gym,
  • descent,
  • orbit,
  • cause,
  • solid ground,
  • hippodrome.

Paraphrases for Background:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    backdrop.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    backgrounder, backgrounders.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    backgrounder.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    back-end, backend.
  • Proper noun, singular
    considerations, Recommendations, principles, particulars, precedents, Islands, handouts, Habitats, Generalities, skills, lessons, GS, warrants, highlights, clerics, Studies.
  • Noun, plural
    affiliations, situations, Realities, moments, auspices, sites, sorts.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    paragraphs, foreground, provenance, ambient, scenario, affiliation, undercurrent, mind, baggage, pedigree, groundwork, atmosphere, backing, backseat, generality, picture.
  • Interjection
    considerations.
  • Verb, past tense
    recalled, linked, Did, Meant.
  • Verb, past participle
    associated, Emerged, combined, linked, faced, Carried, kept.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    AM.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    occurs, explains, Comes, pertains, relates, brings, applies.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    circumstance.

Antonyms for Background:

• n.

  • experience or circumstances
    ignorance.
  • Other antonyms:
    focus, center, focal point, highlight, heart, spotlight.

• v.

  • change
    foreground, play up.

Homophones for Background:

• bicorned, baby grand, bicornuate, begrimed, bicornate, boss around, beach wormwood, bichromated, bichromate.

Hypernym for Background:

• v.

  • change
    wave off, soft-pedal.

Hyponym for Background:

• n.

  • attribute
    heritage, inheritance.
  • cognition
    prospect, aspect, panorama, view, scene, vista.
  • event
    attendant, accompaniment, concomitant, co-occurrence.

• v.

  • change
    emphasise, accent, accentuate, punctuate, emphasize, stress.