All accent synonyms
acΒ·cent
A a verb accent
- importance β the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
- stress β importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- accentuate β To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
- underscore β to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis.
- highlight β to emphasize or make prominent.
- intensify β to make intense or more intense.
- underline β to mark with a line or lines underneath; underscore.
- bring out β When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- heighten β to increase the height of; make higher.
- emphasize β Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- set off β to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- punctuate β to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
noun accent
- idiom β an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
- stroke β a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- accent mark β a mark used to indicate an accent, stress, etc., as for pronunciation or in musical notation. Compare diacritic (def 1).
- tonality β Music. the sum of relations, melodic and harmonic, existing between the tones of a scale or musical system. a particular scale or system of tones; a key.
- prominence β Also, prominency. the state of being prominent; conspicuousness.
- significance β importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
- weight β the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- pronunciation β Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
- inflexion β modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- inflection β modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- intonation β the pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech, especially the pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures.
- drawl β an act or utterance of a person who drawls.
- twang β to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
- brogue β If someone has a brogue, they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots.
- burr β A burr is the part of some plants which contains seeds and which has little hooks on the outside so that it sticks to clothes or fur.
- cadence β The cadence of someone's voice is the way their voice gets higher and lower as they speak.
- rhythm β movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
- timbre β Acoustics, Phonetics. the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its source or manner of production can be inferred. Timbre depends on the relative strengths of the components of different frequencies, which are determined by resonance.
- tone β (Theobald) Wolfe, 1763β98, Irish nationalist and martyr for independence.
- accentuation β an act or instance of accentuating.
- emphasis β Special importance, value, or prominence given to something.
- articulation β Articulation is the action of producing a sound or word clearly, in speech or music.
- beat β If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- dialect β A dialect is a form of a language that is spoken in a particular area.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- meter β an instrument for measuring, especially one that automatically measures and records the quantity of something, as of gas, water, miles, or time, when it is activated.
- modulation β the act of modulating.