background
nounHow to pronounce background:
Definition of background:
- background (noun):
- the scenery or ground behind something
- a person's social class, education, or experience
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training.
Synonyms for background:
backcloth
backdrop
background knowledge
background signal
breeding
circumstances
culture
desktop
environment
ground
history
inheritance
milieu
scene
scenery
scope
screen background
setting
tradition
upbringing
Antonyms for background:
focal point
object
subject
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- hostess
- foreleg
- basis
- fishing
- minding
- passeth
- misquote
- dirges
- missend
- bulging
- pawner
- caking
- margent
- Cliffton
- wheelchair
- crater
- Archard
- mileage
- weary
- girlfriend
- reaper
- faces
- lately
- embrace
- destroy
- bitches
- baddie
- hurry
- despair
- ally
- shaking
- sorry
- twenty
- gadget
- letters
- mother
- finder
- any
- into
- prosist
- cluttered
- jotham
- hughie
- slowly
- deeply
- scanner
- murder
- intense
- spryly
- thumbnail
- … more
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