upstage
noun · adverb · adjective · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)(theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
The actor turned and walked upstage.
- 2.
Away from the audience or camera.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
At the rear of a stage.
The minimalist play used no upstage scenery.
- 2.
(figuratively, obsolete)(figurative, obsolete) Haughty, aloof.
Đồng nghĩa: airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Động từ
verb- 1.
(figuratively, transitive)(figurative, transitive) To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
She only wore that dress to upstage everyone.
Đồng nghĩa: eclipse, overshadow
- 2.
(transitive)(transitive, theater) To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
- 3.
(broadly, transitive)(transitive, by extension) To treat snobbishly.
- 4.
(transitive)(medicine, transitive) To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.
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From up- + stage. The figurative uses “haughty” and “to draw attention away” derive from actors moving to a higher and thus more visible position on a sloped stage.