What is another word for highlight?
Synonyms for highlight
ˈhaɪˌlaɪthigh·light
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Wiktionary
highlightnoun
To be a highlight of.
Antonyms:
lowlight
Princeton's WordNet
highlight, high spotnoun
the most interesting or memorable part
"the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican"
Synonyms:
highlighting, high spothighlight, highlightingverb
an area of lightness in a picture
Synonyms:
highlighting, high spotforeground, highlight, spotlight, play upverb
move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"
Synonyms:
cozy up, play up, sidle up, suck up, cotton up, spotlight, foreground, shine uphighlightverb
apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent
"highlight the area above your eyebrows"
Synonyms:
foreground, spotlight, play up
Editors Contribution
apogisnoun
Submitted by kenchezburton on May 24, 2023
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "highlight":
emphasise, stress, underline, emphasize, underscore, showcase, mention, culmination, illustrate
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2989 | stress | |
#3935 | mention | |
#6031 | highlight | |
#6162 | spotlight | |
#6778 | showcase | |
#10275 | illustrate | |
#12802 | emphasize | |
#14306 | highlighting | |
#19433 | underline | |
#20450 | foreground | |
#25091 | underscore | |
#32104 | emphasise | |
#33152 | culmination |
How to use highlight in a sentence?
That sent a message to me, there are certain holes not the obvious ones you've got to really gut it out at times. It's not the highlight holes. It's the seventh and eighth that are just as important as holing the one on 10 or what you do on 18. It's gutting out putts or shots that would miss the highlight reel.
The trolls would create and highlight the most divisive threads in the conversation around these hashtags, with an aim of dragging the conversation in that more divisive direction.
I tried to hang in there and I tried to come back and play the great game of golf again, ive been lucky enough to have the opportunity to do it again, and ... the amazing Masters experience that I just had a few weeks ago is probably the highlight of what Ive accomplished so far in my life on the golf course.
Highlight of the week has to be holing a 15-20-footer on 18 there. The hair is standing on the back of your neck when that putt went in, unfortunately that putt wasn't to win the Open but it's put me in good position for the future.
I want to highlight the disrespect to this family, i want to highlight the broken system of justice we have in this country. As we're going through this process, we told the families they would have their attorneys in there as some comfort… We went back and forth and I just want to say I've never been talked to like I was talked to in there.
Translations for highlight
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- تسليط الArabic
- ressaltar, subratllar, emfasitzar, remarcar, marcar, llumCatalan, Valencian
- zvýraznitCzech
- Höhepunkt, markieren, beleuchten, hervorheben, HighlightGerman
- realce, enfatizar, marcar, rizo, resaltarSpanish
- برجسته, پررنگ, روشنPersian
- painottaa, korostaa, tähdentää, korostus, kohokohtaFinnish
- rehaut, moment le plus marquant, temps fort, surligner, instant le plus marquantFrench
- मुख्य आकर्षणHindi
- megjelöl, melír, kiemelHungarian
- menyorotIndonesian
- enfatizzare, mettere in evidenza, evidenziare, eventoItalian
- miramiraMāori
- hoogtepuntDutch
- betone, utheve, markereNorwegian
- realçar, enfatizarPortuguese
- [[све́тлый]] [[уча́сток]], [[выдвига́ть]] [[на]] [[пе́рвый]] [[план]], вы́делиться, вы́делить, выделя́ть, выделя́ться, [[вы́двинуть]] [[на]] [[пе́рвый]] [[план]], подчёркивать, подчеркну́ть, [[основно́й]] [[моме́нт]]Russian
- наглашавати, истицатиSerbo-Croatian
- höjdpunkt, slingaSwedish
- முன்னிலைப்படுத்தTamil
- హైలైట్Telugu
- 突出Chinese
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