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emphasized

emphasized adjective: having been given extra stress or focus. Also the simple past and past participle of emphasize.

Adjective

emphasized (comparative more emphasized, superlative most emphasized)

  1. Having been given extra stress or focus.
    • A slight inward swinging of the arms is always necessary, and is slightly more emphasized with girls.1910, Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 56
    • Whenever the subgroup members meet, the fraternal activities are more emphasized and anticipated, because the meeting usually creates an informal and pleasurable ethnic-style atmosphere. Fraternal activities are much more emphasized by immigrant churches and temples than by congregations in Korea...2003, Okyun Kwon, Buddhist and Protestant Korean Immigrants, pages 193-194

Also used as

emphasized is also the simple past and past participle of emphasize.

emphasized meaning in Kannada and Odia

emphasized in Kannada

ಒತ್ತಿಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ

emphasized in Odia

ଗୁରୁତ୍ୱାରୋପ କଲେ

Examples of emphasized in a sentence

  • Whenever the subgroup members meet, the fraternal activities are more emphasized and anticipated, because the meeting usually creates an informal and pleasurable ethnic-style atmosphere.2003, Okyun Kwon, Buddhist and Protestant Korean Immigrants, pages 193-194:
  • I'm the first one in my family to graduate from college . . . higher education just hasn't been very emphasized.2010, James A. Vela-McConnell, Unlikely Friends: Bridging Ties and Diverse Friendships, page 101:

Forms of emphasized

comparativemore emphasized
superlativemost emphasized

Words formed from emphasized

Phrases with emphasized

Questions about emphasized

What does emphasized mean?
Emphasized means having been given extra stress or focus.
What is emphasized in Kannada?
Emphasized in Kannada is ಒತ್ತಿಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ. See Emphasized meaning in Kannada.
How do you use emphasized in a sentence?
Whenever the subgroup members meet, the fraternal activities are more emphasized and anticipated, because the meeting usually creates an informal and pleasurable ethnic-style atmosphere.
What part of speech is emphasized?
Emphasized is an adjective.

Words near emphasized in the dictionary

  1. emphasising
  2. emphasizable
  3. emphasization
  4. emphasize
  5. emphasize everything and nothing is emphasized
  6. emphasized
  7. emphasizer
  8. emphasizers
  9. emphasizes
  10. emphasizing
  11. emphatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasized (page history and authors); emphasized (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); emphasized (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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