spotlight

Speech parts

1. spotlight - Noun

2. spotlight - Verb

Meaning

move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

foreground highlight play up gaslight center centre beacon center stage samara show light feature TLC attention focus

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Antonyms

valance lower digress dark setting decrease

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Hypernyms

light prominence lamp illuminate set-off illumine

Phrases with the word

in the spotlight steal spotlight turning the spotlight on put spotlight on critical spotlight in the media spotlight

Anagrams

stoplight lightpost

Examples

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters. Alan Bennett

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage. Florenz Ziegfeld

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight. Patricia Heaton

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there. Brian Eno

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. Chuck Palahniuk

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. Stefan Zweig

Close letter words and terms

spotlesse spotlessly spotlessness spotlight effect spotlighter spotlighty