Emphasis

Noun

 * 1) Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
 * He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
 * 1) Special attention or prominence given to something.
 * Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
 * 1) Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
 * He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
 * 1)  Related to bold.

Related terms

 * emphasise, emphasize
 * emphatic

Adjectives for Emphasis
lingering; menacing; stubborn; marked; terrific; daring; allowable; improper; extravagant; dreadful; indignant; prodigious; fretful; passionate; prevailing; serious; trivial; joyous; sufficient; ethical; victorious; appealing; artistic; attenuated; sarcastic; flattering; languid; tantalizing.

Verbs for Emphasis
bear—; convey—; express with—; focus upon—; lay—upon; lose—; mark—; note—; observe—; require—; shift—; voice—; —accentuates; —affirms; —delivers; —forces; —imbeds; —implies; —impresses; —inculcates; —insists; —instils; —points; —sharpens; —stresses.

Thesaurus
Alexandrine, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, attention, bacchius, beat, cadence, caesura, catalexis, chloriamb, chloriambus, colon, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, epitrite, excellence, feminine caesura, foot, force, grammatical accent, gravity, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, high order, high rank, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, import, importance, interest, intonation, intonation pattern, ionic, jingle, level of stress, lilt, mark, masculine caesura, materiality, measure, merit, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metrics, metron, molossus, moment, mora, movement, note, numbers, paeon, paralipsis, paramountcy, pentameter, pentapody, period, pitch accent, precedence, preeminence, primacy, primary stress, priority, proceleusmatic, prominence, prosodics, prosody, pyrrhic, quantity, rhetorical accent, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical accent, rhythmical stress, secondary stress, self-importance, significance, spondee, sprung rhythm, stress, stress accent, stress arsis, stress pattern, superiority, supremacy, swing, syzygy, tertiary stress, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, tone accent, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, underlining, underscoring, value, weak stress, weight, worth

Etymology
From <  ἔμφασις: < ἐμφαίνω: < ἔν: + φαίνω:.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Arabic: تركيز
 * Catalan: èmfasi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 強調, 强调
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 強調
 * Russian: подчёркивание,,  особое внимание,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cudrom
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: èmfasi
 * Dutch: benadrukking
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 注目,
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: èmfasi
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: klemtoon, beklemtoning
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 強調, 強勢
 * Scottish Gaelic: cudrom
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan: èmfasi


 * Japanese: 強調


 * : graisse (4)


 * : ênfase

Anagrams

 * misshape

Etymology
From ἔμφασις:.

Noun

 * 1) emphasis