Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding” ( James Fallows).
- v. To pronounce with a stress or accent.
- v. To mark with an accent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To mark or pronounce with an accent or with accents; place an accent or accents on. To lay stress upon; emphasize; give prominence to; mark as of importance: as, he accentuated the views of the party on this question.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
- v. transitive To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
- v. transitive To mark with a written accent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
- v. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
- v. To mark with the written accent.
WordNet 3.0
- v. to stress, single out as important
- v. put stress on; utter with an accent
Etymologies
- Medieval Latin accentuāre, accentuāt-, from Latin accentus, accent; see accent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Is the word accentuate a good word to tell in morning assembly?”
“But for the most part I actually "accentuate" my brows with a bit of Bobby Brown light brown eyebrow shadow.”
“And at night especially that cold air wants to drain and kind of accentuate it with these Santa Ana offshore winds and compressed heated and that's what we've got.”
“You kind of accentuate the positives on either side as opposed to a Brewers broadcast when you're putting everything - even the other team's success - into a Brewers perspective.”
“kind of accentuate the positive work the authority is doing.”
“Those on the left side accentuate anger, hate, jealousy, and selfishness.”
“This will always be handy and already help accentuate the area.”
The Huffington Post: Eve Pearl: "How To" Beauty -- Quick & Easy Breast Enhancement
“My recommendation is that women identify and embrace those attributes that make them beautiful, and then learn to accentuate them.”
The Huffington Post: What Is Beauty? A Plastic Surgeon's Perspective
“Hmmmm, but Palin isn't black, doesn't have Oprah's megamillions to image make her and doesn't have Oprah's influence on the media to contain her negatives and accentuate her positives.”
“Also I would add that making truthful statements about facts held in court to be true seems to accentuate the role of the court as fact-finder in these cases, and prohibiting such statements undermines the role of the court.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘accentuate’.
-
The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
-
(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
replete, steeped, eminent, indiscriminate, voracious, automaton, prognosticate, technology, abound, matron, tinge, compound and 297 more...
-
#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
-
You ate what?
habituate, eventuate, accentuate, effectuate, perpetuate, exsanguinate, insinuate, evaluate, fluctuate, adequate, menstruate, disambiguate and 21 more...
-
capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
-
maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
-
GRE 3500
abase, abash, abate, aberrant, abeyance, abjure, ablution, abut, accede, accentuate, acerbity, acetic and 133 more...
-
Angels and Demons Word list
behemoth, disquietude, exalted, heretical, schlock, delirium, precipice, infallible, fathom, fervent, cavern, ardent and 35 more...
-
Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
-
My preparation
for GRE ofcourse
exonerate, incipient, disparate, morbid, engross, ebullient, predilection, propensity, allure, qualms, chastise, perpetuate and 111 more...
-
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
-
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
-
1stDay
lucid, tenacious, adhesive, cling, reconcile, scenic, picturesque, inundate, gastrointestinal, diarrhea, heredity, alimentary canal and 89 more...
-
Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
-
GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
-
SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL A
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 172 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for accentuate.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.