emphasised

1. 1.

   spoken with emphasis

   “an emphatic word”

   Synonymsemphaticemphasized

   Similarstressed

Questions about emphasised

What does emphasised mean?

emphasised means "spoken with emphasis".

How many syllables are in emphasised?

emphasised has 3 syllables: em-phasi-sed. The stress falls on "em".

What is another word for emphasised?

Close synonyms include emphatic, emphasized. 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 emphasised a common word?

emphasised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.