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. Pascal Siakam:

   I think we've got to take care of the ball. Obviously, that’s the most important( thing in the fourth quarter), staying solid, continuing to follow the game plan on defense, and I think that’s all we can do. Obviously, we know what’s happening and we talk amongst each other and then Coach( Nick Nurse) puts an emphasis on it too, so we've got to go out there and execute it.

2. Kevin Gillespie:

   I felt that we as Southerners were starting to slowly lose our grasp on the traditional cooking of the South, because we put so much emphasis on modernizing (cuisine) ... we accidentally forgot to bring our grandma with us. And we need to go back and pick her up.

3. Bruce Dickson:

   He's clearly made a big emphasis that party members have to be loyal to the party above all else.

4. Claudia Cappa:

   UNICEF is working with partners all over the world to implement a number of measures, with an emphasis on placing children themselves at the center of this change by supporting children to speak up against violence in schools and to learn themselves how to treat each other with kindness and respect, we are witnessing in many places around the world a bigger recognition of school violence being a problem.

5. Robert Redfield:

   We are placing an emphasis on testing individuals with symptomatic illness, individuals with a significant exposure, vulnerable populations including nursing homes or long term care facilities, critical infrastructure workers, healthcare workers and first responders, or those individuals who may be asymptomatic when prioritized by medical and public health officials.