foreground

Nouns

  • (n) the part of a scene that is near the viewer
  • (n) (computer science) a window for an active application

Verbs

  • (v) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
    • The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics
    highlight, play up, spotlight,

Synonyms

highlight play up spotlight

Antonyms

background play down downplay

Words of close approximity

foregrounding foreground processing