Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00513492-v 'understate the importance or quality of'; V2;

English

background ( ⊳ ⇔ ) , play down ( ⇔ ) , downplay

Definitions

English: understate the importance or quality of
― he played down his royal ancestry
Japanese: 重要性や質を過小に言う
― 彼は王族の祖先を見くびった

Relations

Verb Frames

Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something;

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TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.215; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: ▲ ▼ (+0.62 -0.12) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.50 -0.25)