background

background is a 10-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 25 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
2. noun. The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
3. noun. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
4. noun. A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
5. noun. scenery hung at back of stage

   Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop

6. noun. (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

   Synonyms: desktop

7. noun. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

   "he is a lawyer with a sports background"

8. noun. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

   "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"

9. noun. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

   "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"

   Synonyms: ground

10. noun. relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

    "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"

11. noun. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

    "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

12. noun. the state of the environment in which a situation exists

    "you can't do that in a university setting"

    Synonyms: scope, setting

13. verb. understate the importance or quality of

    "he played down his royal ancestry"

    Synonyms: downplay

Synonyms

backcloth, backdrop, desktop, ground, scope, setting, downplay

Common word forms

backgrounds, backgrounded, backgrounder, backgrounding

Words from these letters

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