Background Synonyms and Antonyms

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Setting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. setting
  2. backdrop
  3. framework
  4. desktop
  5. environment
  6. blaseness
  7. screen background
  8. scope
Antonyms:
  1. future
  2. foreground
The total of one's experiences
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. experience
  2. history
  3. past
  4. education
  5. credentials
  6. backdrop
  7. training
  8. upbringing
  9. qualifications
  10. preparation
  11. grounding
  12. rearing
  13. accompaniment
  14. antecedents
  15. atmosphere
  16. accomplishments
  17. circumstances
  18. achievements
  19. conditions
  20. attainments
  21. context
  22. ground
  23. acquirements
  24. culture
  25. deeds
  26. distance
  27. unobtrusive
  28. family
  29. retiring
  30. heredity
  31. unseen
  32. landscape
  33. out of sight
  34. lineage
  35. milieu
  36. music
  37. pedigree
  38. precedence
  39. offing
  40. rear
  41. rebound
  42. scenery
  43. setting
  44. backcloth
Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. background signal
Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. background knowledge
Understate the importance or quality of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. play down
  2. downplay
Antonyms:
  1. foreground

Words Related to Background

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. happen
  2. knowledge
  3. contextual
  4. perspective
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  6. subject
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Background Sentence Examples

  • I saved it as the background on the iPad.

  • In the background were the beautiful layered mountains of the White Rock Wildlife Management.

  • But by keeping in the background and giving public opinion time to forget his past, as well as by parliamentary intrigue, he gradually regained much of his former influence.

  • He was not only the oldest native dramatist, but the first author of an epic poem (Bellum Punicum) - which, by combining the representation of actual contemporary history with a mythical background, may be said to have created the Roman type of epic poetry.

  • The visions were less invasive than those from others, like background music at a department store.

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