[{"word":"downplaying","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey."}],"synonyms":["trivialize","understate"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/downplay","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/downplaying"]}]