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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1. Kirby Smart:

   Everyone’s kind of had it circled and seen it out there, we’ve really tried to work hard on getting better. That’s been the emphasis — what can we improve on? The last two weeks, we’ve been trying to be ascending. We’ve tried to get some guys back healthy. And that’s going to be the focus this week — nobody trying to do more than they should.

2. Bill Gross:

   It is demand that must be increased – yes China must move more quickly to a consumer-based economy – but the developed world must play its part by abandoning its destructive emphasis on fiscal austerity, and begin to replace its rapidly decaying infrastructure that has been delayed for decades.

3. David Stamps:

   Breonna Taylor, like Sandra Bland and other Black women, are often relegated to the back row as the emphasis is typically placed on the systemic racism and brutality that Black men face, this is why Breonna Taylor is an icon. Sandra Bland reminds us that we need to #SayHerName and that all Black life matters.

4. Mitch McConnell:

   There’s so much emphasis on the most extreme bills that either party might pass with a simple majority. People forget that the Senate’s 60-vote threshold is the only reason that any routine, must-pass legislation is bipartisan except during divided government, big funding deals. Appropriations bills. Farm bills. Highway bills. The NDAA. The Senate’s 60-vote threshold backstops all of it. It’s not just about controversial items; it’s about everything we do.

5. 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.