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emphasis
noun as in importance, prominence
Strongest matches
attention, insistence, intensity, priority, significance, strength, stress, weight
Strong matches
accent, accentuation, force, headline, highlight, impressiveness, moment, positiveness, power, preeminence
Weak matches
decidedness, underlining, underscoring
Example Sentences
Voice tone doesn’t factor into your points total, but the features together put a strong emphasis on encouraging users to shape their behavior around the AI-driven suggestions.
Levien told Axios that the company’s strategy is “broadly working” and “any change from here is a question of emphasis.”
While the wildlife trade is a source of spillover, Carlson says the emphasis placed on it often outstrips the evidence.
As such, existing marketing plans were shelved, making way for new coronavirus-aware content strategies that placed emphasis on empathy over commercialism.
For media outlets, this emphasis on alarming news is a business decision.
Udall shifted his emphasis to the economy in the last weeks of the campaign, but it was too late.
When music had come into the discussion, the emphasis invariably was on rock sounds and players.
Critics of the bigot should begin placing a bit less emphasis on what he says or feels than what he actually does.
His emphasis on middle-class concerns is, well, understandable.
While there will be always be an emphasis on the next great star, Li Na has already opened the door.
It was difficult to describe—a little sterner, a little wilder, a faint emphasis of the barbaric peering through it.
There are four general forms of emphasis which serve as indications of the characteristics of expression.
It is that from which the former, by the addition of a prefix, which gives emphasis to the meaning, is derived.
"To bathe in the very heart's blood of the one desired," he added with grave emphasis.
Let your articulation be easy, clear, correct in accent, and suited in tone and emphasis to your discourse.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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