Word Meanings - EMPHASIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

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• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• EMPHASIZE
  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
• UTTER
  1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
• PRONOUNCER
  One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• EMPHATICALLY
  1. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay. 2. Not really, but apparently. Sir T. Browne.
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• UTTERMOST
  Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
• PRONOUNCE
  1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly. 2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver,
• PHRASEOLOGIST
  A collector or coiner of phrases.
• UTTERMORE
  Further; outer; utter. Holland.
• UTTERLESS
  Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.
• UTTERER
  One who utters. Spenser.
• PHRASELESS
  Indescribable. Shak.
• VOICEFUL
  Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge.
• PRONOUNCEABLE
  Capable of being pronounced.
• EMPHATICALNESS
  The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
• EMPHATIC; EMPHATICAL
  1. Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• HUCKSTRESS
  A female huckster.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• INVOICE
  A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• MISPRONOUNCE
  To pronounce incorrectly.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• SLUTTERY
  The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
• IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
  A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.