backgrounds

Meanings

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training;
• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground;
• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem;
• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured;
• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation;
• the state of the environment in which a situation exists;
• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
• scenery hung at back of stage
• understate the importance or quality of;

Synonyms

• background
• ground
• background knowledge
• background signal
• setting
• scope
• desktop
• screen background
• backdrop
• backcloth
• play down
• downplay

Scrabble Score: 21

backgrounds is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

backgrounds is not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary

backgrounds is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 26

backgrounds is a valid Words With Friends word

Angrams of backgrounds