underline

1. 1.

   a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)

   Synonymsunderscore

   Broaderstroke

Other forms of underline

plural

underlines·

past tense

underlined·

present participle

underlining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about underline

What does underline mean?

underline means "give extra weight to (a communication)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underline?

underline has 3 syllables: un-der-line. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for underline?

Close synonyms include underscore, emphasize, emphasise, underscore, underscore. 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 underline a common word?

underline 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.

What rhymes with underline?

34 words rhyme with underline. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.