Synonyms for emphasis
ˈɛm fə sɪs; -ˌsizem·pha·sis

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1. emphasis, accentnoun

   special importance or significance

   "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

   Synonyms:
   dialect, vehemence, stress, accent mark, accent, idiom, speech pattern

2. vehemence, emphasisnoun

   intensity or forcefulness of expression

   "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"

   Synonyms:
   fury, stress, wildness, accent, violence, vehemence, furiousness, ferocity, fierceness

3. emphasisnoun

   special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.

   Synonyms:
   vehemence, accent, stress

4. stress, emphasis, accentnoun

   the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

   "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

   Synonyms:
   tenseness, speech pattern, vehemence, stress, dialect, accent mark, accent, tension, strain, focus, idiom

Matched Categories

1. • Importance
   • Prosody
   • Rhetorical Device

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   stress (on certain words), force of utterance

2. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   impressiveness, significance, moment, weight

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1. emphasisnoun

   Synonyms:
   accentuation

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1. List of paraphrases for "emphasis":

   focus, accent, attention, importance, insistence, stress, priority, weight, significance, focusing

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How to use emphasis in a sentence?

1. Xiao Jianwen:

   He lives from paycheck to paycheck. The emphasis is on living in the moment.

2. Stan Boland:

   The challenges we have to solve here are subtly different and that calls for a different set of sensors ... and more emphasis on image and video processing, use of visual techniques for localization.

3. Canadian Olympic chief David Shoemaker:

   The Canadian Olympic Committee has confidence that The Tokyo Games can be staged safely and successfully given what has been learned in sport over the last several months and the emphasis the IOC and Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee have placed on Covid-19 countermeasures, we continue in our preparation to participate at Tokyo 2020 with a focus on the health and safety of our athletes, their families, and their communities.

4. Randall Woodfin:

   That's how much emphasis we're placing on enticing and getting citizens, witnesses to come forward, we want to decrease crime. We need the community to help us get these killers off the street.

5. Calvin Coolidge:

   I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.