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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | focus attention on |
| Synonyms: | accent, bring attention to, call attention to, draw attention to, emphasize, feature, give prominence to, highlight, point up, spotlight, stress, underline, underscore |
| Antonyms: | divert attention from, mask |
| Main Entry: | feature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prominence to |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, advertise, blaze*, call attention to, emphasize, headline, italicize, make conspicuous, mark, play up, point up, present, promote, set off, spotlight*, star, stress, underline, underscore |
| Notes: | the opener comes first in a three-comic show, followed by the feature, followed by the headliner |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | allegorize, bring home, clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, draw a picture, elucidate, emblematize, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across, get over, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out, limelight, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, mirror, ostend, personify, picture, point up, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mark |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | characterize |
| Synonyms: | bespeak, betoken, brand, check off, demonstrate, denote, designate, distinguish, earmark, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, feature, identify, illustrate, indicate, individualize, individuate, label, manifest, mark off, ostend, point out, point up, proclaim, qualify, remark, set apart, show, show up, signalize, signify, singularize, stake out, stamp |
| Main Entry: | overplay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be dramatic |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, blow out of proportion, dramatize, exaggerate, get carried away, ham it up, hyperbolize, labor at, lay it on thick, magnify, maximize, mug, overact, overdo, overdraw, overemphasize, overstate, overstress, overuse, overwork, point up, show off*, stretch |
| Antonyms: | play down |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | play up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emphasize |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, bring to the fore, call attention to, feature, highlight, italicize, magnify, make a production of, point up, stress, turn spotlight on, underline, underscore |
| Antonyms: | deemphasize, play down, underrate, undervalue |
| Main Entry: | punctuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay stress on |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, break, divide, emphasize, interject, interrupt, intersect, intersperse, mark, pepper, point, point up, separate, sprinkle, stress, underline |
| Main Entry: | spotlight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | focus attention on |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, draw attention, feature, floodlight, give prominence, highlight, illuminate, limelight, point up, publicize, put on center stage |
| Antonyms: | turn aside |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accentuate, emphasize |
| Synonyms: | accent, belabor, dwell on, feature, harp on, headline, italicize, lay emphasis on, make emphatic, play up, point up, repeat, rub in, spot, spotlight*, underline, underscore* |
| Antonyms: | attenuate, reduce, relax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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