Verb
downplay (third-person singular simple present downplays, present participle downplaying, simple past and past participle downplayed)
- (transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
Usage notes
- The synonymous alternative form play down is slightly more formal, or slightly less informal.
Translations
to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less important or consequential
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: قَلَّلَ (qallala)
- Bulgarian: омаловажавам (bg) (omalovažavam)
- Catalan: empetitir (ca), minimitzar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 淡化 (zh) (dànhuà)
- Czech: bagatelizovat (cs) impf
- Dutch: bagatelliseren (nl), geringschatten (nl), minimaliseren (nl)
- Finnish: vähätellä (fi), bagatellisoida (fi)
- French: minimiser (fr)
- Galician: please add this translation if you can
- German: herunterspielen (de), verharmlosen (de), kleinreden (de), bagatellisieren (de)
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: גִמֵּד (he) (giméd), הִצְנִיעַ (he) (hitsnía)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: minimizzare (it), sminuire (it)
- Japanese: 矮小化する (ja) (waishōka suru)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: омало́важи (omalóvaži)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: lekceważyć (pl) impf, zlekceważyć (pl) pf, bagatelizować (pl) impf, zbagatelizować (pl) pf, bimbać (pl) impf (colloquial)
- Portuguese: minimizar (pt)
- Russian: преуменьша́ть (ru) (preumenʹšátʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: minimizar (es), quitar hierro (es), quitar importancia, quitar importancia, menospreciar (es)
- Swedish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: приме́ншувати impf (pryménšuvaty), приме́ншити pf (pryménšyty)
- Welsh: bychanu (cy), lleihau (cy)
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