Big Huge Thesaurus

background

noun

• ground
• background knowledge
• background signal
• setting
• scope
• desktop
• screen background
• backdrop
• backcloth
• accompaniment
• aspect
• attendant
• co-occurrence
• concomitant
• CRT screen
• disturbance
• environment
• heritage
• information
• inheritance
• interference
• noise
• panorama
• prospect
• scene
• scenery
• screen
• view
• vista

verb

• play down
• downplay
• accent
• accentuate
• emphasise
• emphasize
• punctuate
• stress

antonyms

• foreground
• play up

sounds kind of like

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

rhymes with

• battleground
• campground
• earthbound
• eastbound
• fairground
• foreground
• foxhound
• greyhound
• hidebound
• homebound
• horehound
• merry-go-round
• outbound
• playground
• snowbound
• southbound
• spellbound
• underground
• westbound