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emphasiser

emphasiser is the alternative spelling of emphasizer.

Meaning of emphasizer

Noun

emphasizer (plural emphasizers)

  1. One who, or that which, emphasizes.
    • Counterintuitively, the authors are down on the use of please as an emphasizer: “ ‘Would you please remember to include me on the email whenever you respond to a customer?’ conveys a sense of exasperation.2007 August 19, William Safire, “Gifts of Gab”, in New York Times

Forms of emphasiser

pluralemphasisers

Origin of emphasiser

From emphasise + -er.

Questions about emphasiser

What is emphasiser the alternative spelling of?
Emphasiser is the alternative spelling of emphasizer.

Words near emphasiser in the dictionary

  1. Empfindsamkeit
  2. emphases
  3. emphasis
  4. emphasise
  5. emphasised
  6. emphasiser
  7. emphasisers
  8. emphasises
  9. emphasising
  10. emphasizable
  11. emphasization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasiser (page history and authors); emphasizer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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