Emphasis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EMPHASIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• stress imparted to something to indicate significance
• special importance, value, or prominence given to something
• stress given to a word or words when speaking to indicate particular importance
• vigour or intensity of expression
• special importance or significance
• A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.
• A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.
• intensity or forcefulness of expression
• special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• special significance imparted to something

Words related to EMPHASIS

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Words that contain EMPHASIS

emphasise16 emphasised18 emphasises17 reemphasis17 emphasising19 misemphasis20 reemphasise18 misemphasise21 overemphasis22 reemphasised20 reemphasises19 unemphasised20 misemphasised23 misemphasises22 overemphasise23 reemphasising21 underemphasis21 misemphasising24 overemphasised25 overemphasises24 underemphasise22 overemphasising26 underemphasised24 underemphasises23

How to use EMPHASIS in a sentence

• He spoke very slowly and without emphasis, but with the greatest possible distinctness.
• Hebblethwaite concluded his sentence with some emphasis.
• You expressed your agreement with two shades of emphasis, the surprised and the scornful.
• The emphasis of all the good books given to young people was on death.
• The responsibility, they repeated with emphasis, was truly enormous.
• If there is one quality more striking than another in the teaching of Christ, it is His emphasis on reality.
• There is the more room for it in this time of increasing emphasis upon machinery when even ministers are being measured in the terms of power, speed and utility.
• No English style is thought tolerable in which, except for the sake of emphasis, the same words are repeated at short intervals.
• These observations have led to certain definite opinions as to those phases of the woman question most in need of emphasis to-day.
• These seem to represent such Sanskrit terms as Buddhatva and Bodhicitta which can receive either an ethical or a metaphysical emphasis.
• I have set down elsewhere what I crave leave to repeat here and with deliberate emphasis.
• He instantly ducked with such emphasis that he almost broke his nose against the bottom of the craft.
• The formal opening of the Delagoa Bay Railway by the President furnished him with an opportunity to express with significant emphasis his friendliness for all things German.
• Had there been the slightest emphasis on that part of the sentence? Steve was not certain.
• That great emphasis must be given to the importance of bringing the chin slowly but vigorously downward against the chest before the inward and backward movement is begun.
• It was as if some other voice, talking above his with his words, gave a meaning and an emphasis which must be unmistakable to her.
• The full powers of manner and tone, of pause and emphasis, were at his command.
• Similarly the observer will in his description lay emphasis on the central point and will select details that bear a helpful relation to it.
• For Sir Charles Verity, raising his voice slightly in passing emphasis, turned and moved slowly towards the little company gathered at the tea-table.
• In the article which directly precedes this, special emphasis is placed upon emotional vitality.
• In these two former topics the emphasis was upon getting a desired result without any attention to the form of that result.
• Over and over again, with all the peculiar emphasis of repetition, it is said that the man was to be in the very image, or likeness, of God.
• They tend accordingly to lose their separate emphasis, in order to be like flowers in a field or trees in a forest.
• Mabie shook the hand of the successful wolf hunter with emphasis, showing that he felt deeply on the subject.

Similar words containing PHASI without suffix s and without prefix em

phasic13 phasis11 aphasia12 aphasic14 phasing13 aphasiac15 aphasias13 aphasics15 biphasic17 diphasic16 phasings14 anaphasic16 aphasiacs16 apophasis16 dysphasia18 dysphasic20 emphasise16 emphasize25 prophasic18 dysphasias19 dysphasics21 emphasised18 emphasises17 emphasized27 emphasizes26 monophasic19 paraphasia17 paraphasic19 polyphasic22 reemphasis17 telophasic17 emphasising19 emphasizing28 misemphasis20 multiphasic20 paraphasias18 reemphasise18 reemphasize27 tachyphasia24 misemphasise21 misemphasize30 overemphasis22 reemphasised20 reemphasises19 reemphasized29 reemphasizes28 tachyphasias25 unemphasised20 unemphasized29 misemphasised23 misemphasises22 misemphasized32 misemphasizes31 overemphasise23 overemphasize32 reemphasising21 reemphasizing30 underemphasis21 misemphasising24 misemphasizing33 overemphasised25 overemphasises24 overemphasized34 overemphasizes33 underemphasise22 underemphasize31 overemphasising26 overemphasizing35 underemphasised24 underemphasises23 underemphasized33 underemphasizes32 underemphasizin32 underemphasizing34

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