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. Matt Massucci:

   We’re a recruiting and talent acquisition solutions provider, i work with a variety of companies on a national basis, but with a heavy emphasis in Chicago, and we help companies hire great talent.

2. Julius Schoeps:

   The government must ask itself why the committee lacks some of the more influential German anti-Semitism researchers and why no emphasis was put on including experts from Jewish organizations and committees, this is a unique scandal.

3. Jessica Alba:

   You can be a great person at work, but you're only bringing half of yourself there if you're not also thriving in The Honest Life, and so there's an emphasis around that, knowing that your personal life is just as important as your professional life, and I'm really proud of that.

4. Robert Eckel:

   If you’re eating a heart-healthy diet, glycemic index is not important to consider, i think the emphasis need to be on the overall diet pattern.

5. Andrew Simms:

   We know the sport at the highest level is profoundly influential on people's behaviors, the fact that they're talking about these issues around diet, around food, around putting an emphasis on using buses rather than private cars is an incredibly important signal about the kinds of behavioral change that we need to make.