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View synonyms for low profile

low profile

[ loh proh-fahyl ]

noun

  1. a deliberately inconspicuous, modest, or anonymous manner.


low profile

noun

    1. a position or attitude characterized by a deliberate avoidance of prominence or publicity
    2. ( as modifier )

      a low-profile approach

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adjective

  1. (of a tyre) wide in relation to its height
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of low profile1

First recorded in 1970–75
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Idioms and Phrases

see keep a low profile .
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Example Sentences

Make sure your mount has a low profile design and thin side profile.

Halley suggests Ma is voluntarily “choosing to keep an extremely low profile while he lets the people who work for him work with the regulators to come to an acceptable conclusion.”

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It’s designed to be low profile and finished with a stylish glass top, making it the way to go if you have aesthetics on your mind.

I’m just going to do my best to help out however I can while keeping a low profile.

During his marathon rehabilitation, Durant left the Warriors for the Brooklyn Nets, celebrated his 31st and 32nd birthdays and mostly kept a low profile.

And though Wright kept a low profile for almost a year, he managed to solicit “Jane Doe” on online escort pages.

Neither Schwend nor Spitz maintained a low profile in the ruins of Munich and they soon attracted attention.

Besides a disappointingly vague press release, Beyoncé has kept a low profile following the scandal.

Like most graffiti artists, she keeps a low profile and her identity is a secret.

Though she had kept a low profile over the last few decades, Yeager recently had been thrown back into the spotlight.

Ramshorn, ramz′horn, n. a semicircular work of low profile in the ditch of a fortified place: an ammonite: a fossil cephalopod.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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