What is another word for emphasis?
Synonyms for emphasis
ˈɛm fə sɪs; -ˌsizem·pha·sis
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Princeton's WordNet
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 patternvehemence, 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, fiercenessemphasisnoun
special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
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
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
emphasisnoun
Synonyms:
stress (on certain words), force of utteranceemphasisnoun
Synonyms:
impressiveness, significance, moment, weight
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
emphasisnoun
Synonyms:
accentuation
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "emphasis":
focus, accent, attention, importance, insistence, stress, priority, weight, significance, focusing
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#887 | weight | |
#1230 | focus | |
#1836 | attention | |
#2424 | priority | |
#2720 | violence | |
#2946 | importance | |
#2989 | stress | |
#4487 | emphasis | |
#6192 | significance | |
#6612 | strain | |
#6816 | focusing | |
#7946 | tension | |
#8873 | accent | |
#12585 | fury | |
#23104 | dialect | |
#31063 | insistence | |
#37219 | idiom | |
#63144 | ferocity | |
#83394 | wildness | |
#86052 | vehemence | |
#127230 | fierceness | |
#270065 | tenseness |
How to use emphasis in a sentence?
He lives from paycheck to paycheck. The emphasis is on living in the moment.
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.
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.
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.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Translations for emphasis
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- تركيزArabic
- баҫымBashkir
- акцент, ударение, подчертаванеBulgarian
- èmfasiCatalan, Valencian
- důrazCzech
- Nachdruck, Gewichtung, Emphase, BetonungGerman
- έμφασηGreek
- énfasisSpanish
- paino, painotus, painottaaFinnish
- accent, emphaseFrench
- cudromScottish Gaelic
- hangsúly, nyomatékHungarian
- enfasiItalian
- 強勢, 注目, 強調, 重点Japanese
- Akzent, BetounungLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- benadrukking, nadruk, beklemtoning, klemtoonDutch
- vektleggingNorwegian
- ênfasePortuguese
- акцент, особое внимание, ударение, подчёркиваниеRussian
- வலியுறுத்தல்Tamil
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