| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, emphasis |
Synonyms: |
significance, stress, weight |
Antonyms: |
unimportance |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stress or pitch in pronunciation |
Synonyms: |
accentuation, articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, enunciation, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tonality, tone |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place emphasis, importance |
Synonyms: |
accentuate, draw attention to, emphasize, highlight, intensify, stress, underline, underscore |
Antonyms: |
disacknowledge, minimize |
| Main Entry: | accentuate |
| 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: | accessorize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add ornament |
Synonyms: |
accent, add on, adorn, equip, supplement |
| Main Entry: | accessory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ornament; accompanying item; supplementary part |
Synonyms: |
accent, addition, adjunct, adornment, appendage, appendix, appliance, appurtenance, attachment, component, decoration, extension, extra, frill, help, supplement, trim, trimming |
Antonyms: |
principal |
| Main Entry: | cadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm |
Synonyms: |
accent, beat, count, inflection, intonation, lilt, measure, meter, modulation, pulse, rhythmus, swing, tempo, throb |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation of message |
Synonyms: |
accent, diction, elocution, emphasis, enunciation, inflection, intonation, modulation, pronunciation, speech, utterance |
Antonyms: |
quiet, secrecy |
| Main Entry: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
Synonyms: |
accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
| Main Entry: | emphasis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, prominence |
Synonyms: |
accent, accentuation, attention, decidedness, force, headline, highlight, impressiveness, insistence, intensity, moment, positiveness, power, preeminence, priority, significance, strength, stress, underlining, underscoring, weight |
Antonyms: |
insignificance, unimportance |