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| Main Entry: | underline |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emphasize; mark |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, bracket, caption, check off, feature, highlight, indicate, play up, rule, stress, underscore, call attention to, draw attention to, give emphasis, interlineate, italicize, point to, point up |
| 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: | caption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heading; short description |
| Synonyms: | explanation, head, inscription, legend, title, underline, rubric, subtitle |
| Main Entry: | emphasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stress, give priority to |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, headline, highlight, hit*, impress, indicate, limelight*, maintain, mark, pinpoint, play up*, point out*, press, pronounce, punctuate, reiterate, repeat, spotlight*, underline, underscore, weight, insist on, italicize, labor the point, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, point up*, put accent on, rub in |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, forget, ignore, play down, understate |
* = 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* |
| 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | punctuate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lay stress on |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, break, divide, emphasize, interject, interrupt, intersect, intersperse, mark, point, separate, sprinkle, stress, underline, pepper*, point up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reinforce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strengthen, augment |
| Synonyms: | add to, back up, beef up*, bolster, boost, build up, buttress, carry, emphasize, energize, enlarge, fortify, harden, hype, increase, multiply, pick up, pillar, prop, stiffen, stress, stroke, supplement, support, sustain, toughen, underline, add fuel to fire, heat up, lend a hand, prop up, punch up, shore up, soup up, stand up for |
| Antonyms: | subtract, undermine, weaken, take away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mark, stroke; border |
| Synonyms: | band, bar, borderline, boundary, channel, configuration, contour, crease, dash, delineation, demarcation, edge, figuration, figure, frontier, furrow, groove, limit, outline, profile, rule, score, scratch, silhouette, streak, stripe, underline, wrinkle, lineament, lineation, tracing |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | border, mark |
| Synonyms: | abut, adjoin, align, array, bound, communicate, crease, cut, delineate, draw, edge, fix, follow, fringe, furrow, group, inscribe, join, march, marshal, neighbor, order, outline, place, queue, range, rank, rim, rule, score, skirt, touch, trace, underline, verge, allineate, butt against, line up, ordinate |
| Main Entry: | mark |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blemish, stain |
| Synonyms: | autograph, blaze, blot, blotch, brand, bruise, check, dent, dot, impress, imprint, initial, inscribe, label, letter, nick, pinpoint, point, print, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, smudge, splotch, stamp, streak, stroke, trace, underline, write, X*, chalk, ink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | legend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brief description in document |
| Synonyms: | cipher, code, device, epitaph, head, heading, inscription, key, motto, table, underline, epigraph, rubric |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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