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Lowkey / Highkey

Slightly / very.

What it actually means

'Lowkey' softens a statement — a quiet admission. 'Highkey' is the opposite: fully, openly. They function as volume dials on any sentence.

In the wild

lowkey nervous about tomorrow

I'm a bit nervous about tomorrow.

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