bold face

1. 1.

   a typeface with thick heavy lines

   Synonymsboldfacebold

   Broaderfont

Questions about bold face

What does bold face mean?

bold face means "a typeface with thick heavy lines".

What is another word for bold face?

Close synonyms include boldface, bold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bold face a common word?

bold face is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.