lowlight

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noun

A particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.

Opposite
highlightmidlight
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Meanings

nounlowlight (plural lowlights)

plural lowlights

  1. A particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.

    He is not commenting on Dick Cheney’s marksmanship lowlights here.

    2007 September 14, Richard Sandomir, “Right Tools Help Make Right Mix in Booth”, in New York Times
    1 more example

    Here are some of the highlights lowlights of the state opening of parliament. And I truly do mean state.

    2019 December 19, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “The absolute state of it: lowlights from the opening of parliament”, in The Guardian

    Antonyms: highlight, midlight

  2. cosmeticsIn hairstyling, a highlight in a darker color rather than a lighter one.
verblowlight (third-person singular simple present lowlights, present participle lowlighting, simple past and past participle lowlighted)

present singular third person lowlights · participle present lowlighting · participle past lowlighted · past lowlighted

  1. transitiveTo dye (part of the hair) a darker color than the rest.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA particularly unfavorable or mediocre moment or aspect.

Opposite
highlightmidlight

Origin

From low + light. Formed by analogy with highlight.

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Cite this entry
APA

lowlight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowlight

MLA

“lowlight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowlight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lowlight,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lowlight.

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