lowlight
lowlight Lexical Profile
lowlight Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A particularly disappointing, unpleasant, or unmemorable part of an event, experience, or period of time.
"The lowlight of our vacation was spending six hours stranded at the train station in the pouring rain."
A strand or section of hair that has been dyed a darker shade than the rest of the hair to create depth and contrast.
"The stylist recommended adding warm caramel lowlights to give her blonde hair more dimension for the autumn season."
A dark, muted, or shadowed area in a photograph, painting, or visual display.
"Adjusting the camera exposure helped preserve subtle details in both the bright highlights and the deep lowlights of the landscape."
• verb
To dye selected strands of hair a darker shade than the surrounding hair in order to add depth or contrast.
"She asked the colorist to lowlight her sun-bleached hair so it would look more natural for winter."
To emphasize or draw attention to the negative, disappointing, or worst aspects of something.
"The end-of-season broadcast lowlighted the team's costly defensive blunders during the playoffs."
• Rhymes for lowlight
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 20th century as a compound of 'low' and 'light', formed by analogy with and in direct contrast to 'highlight'.