- accentuate
- affirm
- assert
- highlight
- indicate
- maintain
- point out
- reiterate
- repeat
- underline
- underscore
- accent
- articulate
- charge
- dramatize
- enlarge
- enunciate
- headline
- hit
- impress
- italicize
- mark
- pinpoint
- press
- pronounce
- punctuate
- spotlight
- weight
- bear down
- dwell on
- insist on
- labor the point
- limelight
- make a point
- make clear
- make emphatic
- make much of
- play up
- point up
- put accent on
- rub in
On this page you’ll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to emphasize, such as: accentuate, affirm, assert, highlight, indicate, and maintain.
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I have wanted him to do it absolutely on his own, and I could not emphasize this better than by coming right away to Mudros.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO EMPHASIZE
- accentuate
- draw attention to
- emphasize
- highlight
- intensify
- stress
- underline
- underscore
- accent
- bring attention to
- call attention to
- draw attention to
- emphasize
- feature
- give prominence to
- highlight
- point up
- spotlight
- stress
- underline
- underscore
- accented
- brought attention to
- called attention to
- drew attention to
- emphasized
- featured
- gave prominence to
- highlighted
- pointed up
- spotlighted
- stressed
- underlined
- underscored
- accents
- brings attention to
- calls attention to
- draws attention to
- emphasizes
- features
- gives prominence to
- highlights
- points up
- spotlights
- stresses
- underlines
- underscores
- affirm
- assert
- avouch
- claim
- contend
- declare
- emphasize
- insist
- justify
- predicate
- proclaim
- prove
- state
- swear
- verify
- affirming
- asserting
- avouching
- claiming
- contending
- declaring
- emphasizing
- insisting
- justifying
- predicating
- proclaiming
- proving
- stating
- swearing
- verifying
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emphasis, emphasise, emphasizing, emphasised, emphasising
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accent, accentuate, dwell on, foreground, give priority to, highlight, insist on, lay stress on, play up, press home, put the accent on, stress, underline, underscore, weight
Antonyms
gloss over, make light of, make little of, minimize, play down, soft-pedal (informal) underplay
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
emphasize
( emphasizes 3rd person present) ( emphasizing present participle) ( emphasized past tense & past participle )
in BRIT, also use emphasise To emphasize something means to indicate that it is particularly important or true, or to draw special attention to it. verb
But it’s also been emphasized that no major policy changes can be expected to come out of the meeting… V that
Discuss pollution with your child, emphasizing how nice a clean street, lawn, or park looks. V how
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Pronunciation:
[ ˈɛmfɐsˌa͡ɪz], [ ˈɛmfɐsˌaɪz], [ ˈɛ_m_f_ɐ_s_ˌaɪ_z]
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stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuateverb
to stress, single out as important
«Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet»
Synonyms:
emphasise, mark, punctuate, stress, try, accent, underscore, strain, accentuate, underline -
underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasiseverb
give extra weight to (a communication)
«Her gesture emphasized her words»
Synonyms:
punctuate, underscore, stress, accent, emphasise, accentuate, underline
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List of paraphrases for «emphasize»:
stress, underline, emphasise, highlight, underscore, emphasized, stressed, emphasizes, assure, insist, stresses
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Carsten Hjorthøj:
I think it is highly important to use both our study and other studies to highlight and emphasize that cannabis use is not harmless, there is, unfortunately, evidence to suggest that cannabis is increasingly seen as a somewhat harmless substance. This is unfortunate, since we see links with schizophrenia, poorer cognitive function, substance use disorders, etc.
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Thomas Steinemann:
That’s a rather circuitous route, but I want to emphasize that it’s certainly plausible.
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Karen Knudson:
If someone is 45 or younger and has not yet been vaccinated, certainly [they should have] a conversation with their physician, and everyone 26 years and younger should consider vaccination. And I can’t emphasize this enough: That’s for men and women.
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Academic Affairs Thomas Jeitschko:
We have decided that we will return to campus, both in terms of the classroom setting as well as the regular work, come tomorrow, i’d like to emphasize that no one thinks that we’re coming back to a normal week. In fact, this semester is not going to be normal.
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Anthony Fauci:
The most likely explanation is a natural evolution from an animal reservoir to a human, once you say that, which I believe is the more likely, you’ve got to make sure you emphasize that you still keep an open mind for all possibilities, including a lab leak.
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- شددArabic
- изтъквам, подчертавамBulgarian
- emfatitzarCatalan, Valencian
- zdůraznitCzech
- betonenGerman
- υπογραμμίζωGreek
- subrayar, enfatizarSpanish
- اهمیت دادنPersian
- korostaa, tähdentää, painottaaFinnish
- soulignerFrench
- emfazarIdo
- evidenziare, sottolineare, enfatizzareItalian
- להדגישHebrew
- アクセント, 強調Japanese
- miramiraMāori
- benadrukkenDutch
- enfatizarPortuguese
- подчеркнуть, подчёркиватьRussian
- poudáritiSlovene
- betona, understrykaSwedish
- வலியுறுத்தTamil
- เน้นThai
- підкреслитиUkrainian
- زور دیناUrdu
- ונטערשטרייַכןYiddish
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