| Main Entry: | tone down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | moderate |
Synonyms: |
chill out, cloud, dampen, darken, deepen, dim, mitigate, modulate, play down, reduce, restrain, shade, sober, soft-pedal, soften, subdue, temper |
Antonyms: |
aggravate, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | darken |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become shaded, unlit |
Synonyms: |
becloud, bedim, blacken, cloud over, cloud up, deepen, dim, eclipse, fog, gray, haze, make dim, murk, obfuscate, obscure, overcast, overshadow, shade, shadow, tone down |
Antonyms: |
brighten, illuminate, lighten, whiten |
| Main Entry: | deaden |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, muffle, quiet |
Synonyms: |
KO, abate, alleviate, anesthetize, benumb, blunt, check, chloroform, consume, cushion, damp, dampen, depress, deprive, desensitize, destroy, devitalize, dim, dope, drown, dull, etherize, exhaust, freeze, frustrate, gas, hush, impair, incapacitate, injure, knock out, lay out, lessen, mute, numb, paralyze, put out of order, put to sleep, quieten, reduce, repress, retard, slow, smother, soften, stifle, stun, stupefy, suppress, tire, tone down, unnerve, weaken |
Antonyms: |
animate, build, enliven, increase, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | dull |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drab, lackluster in effect on senses |
Synonyms: |
ashen, black, blind, cloudy, cold, colorless, dark, dead, dim, dingy, dismal, dun, dusky, faded, feeble, flat, grimy, hazy, indistinct, leaden, lifeless, low, matte, mousy, muddy, muffled, murky, muted, obscure, opaque, overcast, plain, shadowy, sober, soft, softened, somber, sooty, subdued, subfusc, toned-down, unlit |
Antonyms: |
bright, clear, light, luminous, lustrous |
| Main Entry: | fade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lose color |
Synonyms: |
achromatize, become colorless, blanch, bleach, blench, clear, decolorize, dim, disappear, discolor, dissolve, dull, etiolate, evanish, evaporate, grow dim, lose brightness, lose luster, muddy, neutralize, pale, tarnish, tone down, vanish, wash out |
Antonyms: |
brighten, color, sharpen, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | lower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce, minimize |
Synonyms: |
abate, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, de-escalate, decrease, decry, deflate, demote, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, downgrade, downsize, lessen, mark down, moderate, pare, prune, roll back, scale down, shave, slash, soften, tone down, undervalue, write off |
Antonyms: |
elevate, heighten, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | low-key |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | subdued |
Synonyms: |
easygoing, laid-back*, loose, low-pitched, muffled, muted, played down, quiet, relaxed, restrained, sober, soft-sell, softened, subtle, toned down, understated |
Antonyms: |
energized, high-key, high-strung, nervous, pumped up |
| Main Entry: | mince |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | euphemize, hold back in communication |
Synonyms: |
alleviate, decrease, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minimize, moderate, palliate, soften, spare, tone down, weaken |
Antonyms: |
reveal, tell all |
| Main Entry: | mitigate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | check, diminish, lighten |
Synonyms: |
abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, come together, cool*, dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, meet halfway, moderate, modify, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quiet, reduce, relieve, remit, soften, soothe, subdue, take the edge off, temper, tone down, tranquilize, weaken |
Antonyms: |
aggravate, incite, increase, intensify, irritate, worsen |
| Main Entry: | moderate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | restrain, control |
Synonyms: |
abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, chasten, check, constrain, cool out, cool*, curb, decline, decrease, die down, diminish, ease off, fall, lessen, let up, meet halfway, mitigate, modify, modulate, mollify, pacify, play down, qualify, quiet, reduce, regulate, relent, relieve, repress, slacken, slow, soft-pedal, soften, subdue, subside, tame, temper, tone down, wane |
Antonyms: |
egg on, free, incite, let go, liberate, unleash |