making much of

The phrase “making much of” has 4 syllables: mak-ing much of

It's pronounced as /ˈmeɪ.kɪŋ mʌtʃ əv/


What is synonym and antonym for making much of?

In the thesaurus, “making much of” has 37 synonyms and 8 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for making much of along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for making much of

  • accenting
  • accentuating
  • advertising
  • bearing down on
  • boosting
  • calling attention to
  • displaying
  • drawing attention to
  • emphasizing
  • featuring
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • giving center stage to
  • headlining
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • illuminating
  • overplaying
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • pointing up
  • presenting
  • pressing
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • pushing
  • recommending
  • showing
  • showing off
  • spotlighting
  • starring
  • stressing
  • turning
  • turning the spotlight on

Antonyms for making much of

  • belittling
  • de-emphasizing
  • discounting
  • disparaging
  • minimizing
  • playing down
  • underemphasizing
  • understating

Example Sentences

  • She is always making much of her accomplishments, which inspires others.
  • The media was making much of the celebrity’s latest charity work.
  • He tends to exaggerate stories, making much of even the smallest achievements.
  • Making much of their relationship, they celebrated every anniversary with great enthusiasm.
  • The teacher was making much of the students’ efforts to improve their grades this semester.

On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to making much of, such as: accenting, accentuating, advertising, bearing down on, belittling, boosting, calling attention to.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

accenting

  • accentuating
  • advertising
  • bearing down on
  • boosting
  • emphasizing
  • featuring
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • illuminating
  • making much of
  • overplaying
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • pressing
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • spotlighting
  • stressing

accentuating

  • accelerating
  • accenting
  • advancing
  • advertising
  • aggravating
  • amplifying
  • augmenting
  • bearing down on
  • boosting
  • bringing out
  • broadening
  • building
  • building up
  • consolidating
  • deepening
  • dominant
  • emphasizing
  • enforcing
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enlivening
  • escalating
  • exacerbating
  • expanding
  • extending
  • featuring
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • growing
  • hastening
  • heightening
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • illuminating
  • intensifying
  • italicizing
  • lengthening
  • magnifying
  • making much of
  • maximizing
  • overplaying
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • pressing
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • quickening
  • redoubling
  • reenforcing
  • reinforcing
  • restrengthening
  • sharpening
  • spotlighting
  • stepping up
  • strengthening
  • stressing
  • supplementing
  • underlining
  • underscoring

illuminating

  • accenting
  • accentuating
  • advertising
  • analyzing
  • annotating
  • availing
  • bathing
  • beaconing
  • beaming
  • bearing down on
  • bedazzling
  • beneficial
  • bettering
  • blazing
  • blinding
  • boosting
  • breaking down
  • brightening
  • burning
  • chatty
  • clarifying
  • commentating
  • communicatory
  • comprehensive
  • constructive
  • construing
  • copious
  • dazing
  • dazzling
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • defining
  • demonstrating
  • demystifying
  • detailed
  • disentangling
  • edifying
  • educating
  • educational
  • educative
  • elevating
  • elucidating
  • elucidative
  • emblazing
  • emphasizing
  • enhaloing
  • enlightening
  • ennobling
  • enriching
  • ensouling
  • exalting
  • explaining
  • explanatory
  • explicating
  • expounding
  • featuring
  • firing
  • flaming
  • floodlighting
  • fluorescent
  • focusing
  • focussing
  • foregrounding
  • full
  • getting across
  • glaring
  • gleaming
  • glistening
  • glittering
  • glorifying
  • glossing
  • glowing
  • gossipy
  • haloing
  • helpful
  • highlighting
  • identifying
  • igniting
  • illuminated
  • illuming
  • illumining
  • illustrating
  • imaging
  • improving
  • incandescent
  • incinerating
  • informational
  • informative
  • informatory
  • inspiring
  • instructional
  • instructive
  • interpreting
  • irradiating
  • kindling
  • lifting
  • lightening
  • lighting
  • luminescent
  • making much of
  • newsy
  • nurturing
  • overplaying
  • pictorializing
  • picturing
  • pinpointing
  • playing up
  • plugging
  • practical
  • pressing
  • profitable
  • promoting
  • publicizing
  • punctuating
  • radiating
  • regenerating
  • renewing
  • resolving
  • serviceable
  • shining
  • simplifying
  • solving
  • specifying
  • spelling out
  • spotlighting
  • stressing
  • transfiguring
  • transforming
  • undoing
  • unraveling
  • unriddling
  • unscrambling
  • untangling
  • uplifting
  • usable
  • useable
  • useful
  • visualizing
  • worthwhile

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