Accentuate

Quick meaning: Accentuate is a verb meaning (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

Meaning

(transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
2. (transitive) To mark with a written accent.

Example Sentences

our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility

Eating meat does not conform to God's original intention, and resorting to carnivorism merely accentuates an unattractive part of human nature.

Soft girl makeup, as the name suggests is a pastel, sweet style that focuses on accentuating natural features with a signature element being blush and faux freckles.

These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.

Word Forms

• accentuates
• accentuating
• accentuated

Synonyms for accentuate

Depending on context, synonyms include accent, betone, emphasize, stress, punctuate, set off.

Antonyms for accentuate

Common opposites include destress, deemphasize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accent, punctuate, emphasize, stress, set off, highlight.

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