upstage

Noun

• the rear part of the stage
• The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.

Verb

Verb Forms: upstaged, upstaging, upstages

• To draw attention from, or outdo, someone else.
• treat snobbishly, put in one's place
• move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience
• steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else
  • "When the dog entered the stage, he upstaged the actress"
• To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
• To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
• To treat snobbishly.
• To restage upward; to restage (a case of a disease, usually a cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment.

Adjective

• of the back half of a stage
  • "she crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience"

Adjective Satellite

• remote in manner
  • "he was upstage with strangers"

Adverb

• at or toward the rear of the stage
  • "the dancers were directed to move upstage"

Adv

• Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
• Away from the audience or camera.

Adj

• At the rear of a stage.
• Haughty, aloof.

Examples

• She only wore that dress to upstage everyone.
• She tried to upstage her opponent by forming a triple-triple word, but it was challenged.
• The actor turned and walked upstage.
• The minimalist play used no upstage scenery.

Synonyms

aloof, distant, airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, eclipse, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overshadow, 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

Antonyms

downstage

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