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?
That was good, to see that percentage of women getting first trimester prenatal care is up, we look at the whole range of maternal-child health care as a great barometer of access to care, because there has been an emphasis over many years of making sure that women and children -- even low-income women and children -- get access to health care.
Democracy creates far better opportunities for both economic growth and cultural progress than the authoritarian regimes. My government has placed strong emphasis on bold economic reforms to achieve significant improvement in all sectors of the economy, it (GDP) is expected to be over 5 percent this year.
I know it seems weird, but we've got to get control of the spread of the virus so that people can go back to spending their money on services and there will be less emphasis in demand for physical goods and cars and computers and all of the stuff that are experiencing the supply shortages.
There has been much criticism of sporting organizations across the globe recently for a lack of transparency in matters of corruption, anti-doping and member protection, the importance of taking an integrated and co-ordinated approach, and my plan is to have an emphasis on education, is critical to tackling this issue and will be the focus of my new role.
My toes get really cold, and they go numb a little bit, so keeping those suckers as warm and as dry as possible as well as the hands, obviously, that's a big emphasis for quarterbacks, you need your hands to throw, so keeping those extremities as warm as possible.
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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