Definition of Backgrounded

1. Verb. (past of background) ¹

2. Adjective. Moved to the background ¹

3. Adjective. (computing) (''of a task'') Made non-interactive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backgrounded

1. background [v] - See also: background

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backgrounded

backgammons
background
background knowledge
background level
background music
background noise
background process
background processes
background processing
background radiation
background radiations
background retinopathy
background signal
backgrounded (current term)
backgrounder
backgrounders
backgrounding
backgrounds
backhand
backhand(a)
backhand drive
backhand shot
backhand stroke
backhanded
backhanded compliment
backhanded compliments
backhandedly
backhandedness

Literary usage of Backgrounded

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1895)
"The patterns of faith, hope and charity must be so harmonious, like the flowers of the royal tapestry weaver, and so solidly backgrounded with truth, ..."

2. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1918)
"Granville Barker, backgrounded by immense prestige, has given me keen moments, intellectual thrills, but it took all of his congregated resources to do it. ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... the less imaginative observer to perceive that he would always fail to detect any motionless lice animal that happened to be as favorably backgrounded, ..."

4. Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by William Holman Hunt (1905)
"... the swaying dark cypresses ; the arcades and eastern wall stood backgrounded by the Mount of Olives. It was a poetic and absorbing scene, and watching ..."

5. Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells (1903)
"the psychological and emotional possibilities of ai ideal action strongly backgrounded by fact hardly less ideal—these are the materials of a story so ..."

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