lowlight
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From low + light. Formed by analogy with highlight.
Noun
[edit]lowlight (plural lowlights)
- A particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.
- 2007 September 14, Richard Sandomir, “Right Tools Help Make Right Mix in Booth”, in New York Times[1]:
- He is not commenting on Dick Cheney’s marksmanship lowlights here.
- 2019 December 19, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The absolute state of it: lowlights from the opening of parliament”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Here are some of the
highlightslowlights of the state opening of parliament. And I truly do mean state.
- (cosmetics) In hairstyling, a highlight in a darker color rather than a lighter one.
Verb
[edit]lowlight (third-person singular simple present lowlights, present participle lowlighting, simple past and past participle lowlighted)
- (transitive) To dye (part of the hair) a darker color than the rest.