emphasis
Meaning of emphasis
noun
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
- Special attention or prominence given to something.
Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
- 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.
- The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
- The use of boldface.
Information about emphasis
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of emphasis
em-pha-sis
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- emphasis is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
emphasis synonyms
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Words that rhyme with emphasis
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