low-key
adjective/ˌləʊ ˈkiː/
/ˌləʊ ˈkiː/
- not intended to attract a lot of attention
- Their wedding was a very low-key affair.
Extra Examples- We have a fairly low-key approach to discipline.
- We want to keep the whole affair as low-key as possible.
- The announcement was relatively low-key.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- keep something
- …
- very
- fairly
- pretty
- …
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