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| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accentuate, emphasize |
| Synonyms: | accent, belabor, dwell on, feature, harp on*, headline*, play up, repeat, spot, spotlight*, underline*, underscore*, italicize, lay emphasis on, make emphatic, point up, rub in |
| Antonyms: | attenuate, reduce, relax |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put under physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | afflict, burden, crunch, distend, force, fret, hassle, overdo, pull, spring, strain, stretch, tense, worry, overextend, put in traction, put on trial, tense up, traumatize |
| Main Entry: | drawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense, fatigued |
| Synonyms: | fraught, haggard, peaked, starved, strained, taut, thin, tired, worn, harassed, harrowed, pinched, sapped, stressed |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, unstressed |
| Main Entry: | emphatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insistent, unequivocal |
| Synonyms: | absolute, assertive, assured, categorical, certain, cogent, confident, decided, definite, definitive, determined, direct, distinct, dogmatic, dynamic, earnest, energetic, explicit, express, flat, forceful, forcible, important, impressive, marked, momentous, pointed, positive, potent, powerful, pronounced, significant, sober, solemn, striking, strong, sure, telling, trenchant, unmistakable, vigorous, accented, for a face, no mistake, resounding, stressed |
| Antonyms: | equivocal, indefinite, indistinct, insignificant, reserved, understated, unpronounced |
| Main Entry: | harried |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pressured |
| Synonyms: | agitated, anxious, at wit's end, beset, bothered, distressed, harassed, hard-pressed, stressed, troubled, worried |
| Main Entry: | overworked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn out |
| Synonyms: | exhausted, fatigued, strained, stressed out, tense, burned out, overburdened, overloaded, overtaxed, stressed, under stress |
| Main Entry: | taut |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rigid, tight |
| Synonyms: | close, firm, snug, stiff, strained, tense, trim, unyielding, flexed, stressed, stretched, tightly drawn |
| Notes: | taunt meant to mock or tease someone; taut means tightly stretched or tense |
| Antonyms: | droopy, flabby, loose, slack |
| Main Entry: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place emphasis, importance |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, emphasize, highlight, intensify, stress, underline, underscore, draw attention to |
| Antonyms: | minimize, disacknowledge |
| Main Entry: | accentuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | focus attention on |
| Synonyms: | accent, emphasize, feature, highlight, spotlight, stress, underline, underscore, bring attention to, call attention to, draw attention to, give prominence to, point up |
| Antonyms: | mask, divert attention from |
| Main Entry: | assert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insist, declare, maintain |
| Synonyms: | advance, affirm, allege, argue, asservate, attest, aver, avouch, avow, butt in*, cite, claim, contend, defend, horn in, justify, mouth off*, pop off*, predicate, press, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, put forward, say, shoot off one's mouth, shoot one's wad, stand up for, state, stress, swear, uphold, vindicate, warrant |
| Antonyms: | deny, reject |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | declare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known clearly or officially |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, advance, advocate, affirm, allege, announce, argue, assert, attest, aver, avow, blaze, certify, cite, claim, confess, confirm, contend, convey, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, inform, insist, maintain, manifest, notify, pass, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, publish, render, repeat, reveal, show, sound, state, stress, swear, tell, testify, validate, vouch, allegate, asservate, be positive, bring forward, give out, propound, put forward, reaffirm, reassert, set forth |
| Antonyms: | deny, disavow, retract |
| Main Entry: | distress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | worry, upset |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, be on one's case, bother, break, bug, burn up, depress, desolate, discombobulate, disquiet, disturb, do a number on, dog*, eat*, get to*, get*, give a hard time, grieve, harass, harry, hound, hurt, injure, irk, irritate, make it tough for, miff, nag, needle, nit-pick, oppress, pain, peeve, perplex, pester, pick on, plague, push, push buttons, rack, sadden, strain, strap, stress, tick off*, torment, torture, trouble, try, vex, weigh, wound |
| Antonyms: | assist, calm, comfort, help, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enforce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put a rule, plan in force |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, administer, apply, carry out, coerce, commandeer, compel, constrain, demand, dictate, discharge, drive, effect, egg on*, emphasize, exact, execute, exert, expect, extort, fortify, fulfill, goad, hound, impel, implement, impose, incite, invoke, lash, make, necessitate, oblige, perform, press, prosecute, reinforce, require, sanction, spur, strain, stress, strong-arm, support, urge, whip, wrest, administrate, crack down, dragoon, force upon, insist on, lean on, put into effect, put screws to |
| Antonyms: | abandon, disregard, drop, forego, forget, neglect, overlook, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prominence to |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, advertise, blaze*, emphasize, headline*, mark, play up*, present, promote, spotlight*, star, stress, underline, underscore, call attention to, italicize, make conspicuous, point up*, set off* |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | badger |
| Synonyms: | annoy, attack, bait, bedevil, beleaguer, bother, bug*, bullyrag*, burn*, despoil, devil*, distress, disturb, eat*, exasperate, exhaust, fatigue, foray, get to*, give a bad time, give a hard time, gnaw*, harry, hassle, heckle, hound*, intimidate, irk, irritate, jerk around, macerate, maraud, noodge, pain*, perplex, persecute, pester, plague, raid, rattle one's cage, ride, strain, stress, tease, tire, torment, trouble, try, vex, weary, work on, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, facilitate, help, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emphasize |
| Synonyms: | establish, fix, inculcate, instill, press, set, stress, bring home, drive home, get into head |
| Antonyms: | neglect |
| Main Entry: | intensify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more forceful, severe |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, add to, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, beef up*, boost, brighten, build up, concentrate, darken, deepen, emphasize, enhance, escalate, exacerbate, exalt, heighten, increase, lighten, magnify, point, quicken, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, sharpen, spike*, step up, strengthen, stress, whet, add fuel, heat up, intensate, pour it on, set off, tone up |
| Antonyms: | calm, lower, slow, soothe, weaken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maintain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assert, claim; argue for |
| Synonyms: | advocate, affirm, allege, asseverate, attest, aver, avow, back, champion, contend, correct, declare, defend, emphasize, hold, insist, justify, persist, profess, protest, rectify, report, right, say, state, stress, uphold, vindicate, fight for, plead for, stand by |
| Antonyms: | condemn, desert, discard, forget |
| Main Entry: | pain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, trouble |
| Synonyms: | ache, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, annoy, bite, chafe, chasten, constrain, convulse, discomfort, disquiet, distress, exasperate, gall, grieve, gripe, harass, harm, hurt, inflame, injure, irk, irritate, nick, prick, punish, rack, rile, sadden, smart, sting, strain, stress, suffer, throb, tingle, torment, torture, upset, vex, worry, wound, cut to the quick, excruciate, harrow, hit where one lives |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please |
| Main Entry: | play up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emphasize |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, feature, highlight, magnify, stress, underline, underscore, bring to the fore, call attention to, italicize, make a production of, point up, turn spotlight on |
| Antonyms: | play down, underrate, undervalue, deemphasize |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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