Definitions For Background

noun

  • Scenery hung at back of stage
  • (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
  • A person's social heritage: previous experience or training
  • Information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
  • The part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
  • Relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
  • Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
  • The state of the environment in which a situation exists
  • The part of a scene or picture that is farthest from the viewer : the part of a scene that is behind a main figure or object in a painting, photograph, etc.
  • A surface or color that is behind or around something (such as a printed design)
  • A position that attracts little attention

verb

  • Understate the importance or quality of

Is Backgrounds a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
21
Words with Friends
26

The word Background is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 26 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Background in a Sentence

  • Objects in the foreground are drawn larger than those in the background.
  • A photograph of a house with mountains in the background
  • Red letters printed on a white background

Synonyms for Background

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