Word.ws English Dictionary

unhighlight

unhighlight verb: to remove a selection highlight from.

Verb

unhighlight (third-person singular simple present unhighlights, present participle unhighlighting, simple past and past participle unhighlighted)

  1. (transitive) To remove a selection highlight from.

Forms of unhighlight

third-person singular presentunhighlights
present participleunhighlighting
past participleunhighlighted
pastunhighlighted

Origin of unhighlight

From un- + highlight.

Questions about unhighlight

What does unhighlight mean?
Unhighlight means to remove a selection highlight from.
What part of speech is unhighlight?
Unhighlight is a verb.
What is the past tense of unhighlight?
The past tense of unhighlight is unhighlighted.

Words near unhighlight in the dictionary

  1. unhiding
  2. unhierarchical
  3. unhieratic
  4. unhieratical
  5. unhigh
  6. unhighlight
  7. unhighlighted
  8. unhighlighting
  9. unhighlights
  10. unhijackable
  11. unhijacked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unhighlight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unhighlight.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unhighlight. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.