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unboldface

unboldface verb: to make not boldface.

Verb

unboldface (third-person singular simple present unboldfaces, present participle unboldfacing, simple past and past participle unboldfaced)

  1. To make not boldface.
    • […]making these functions even slower and more distracting to perform, since the screen had to be watched very closely and some words and characters gone over three or four times to get them underlined or "unboldfaced."1985, Brian Gallagher, Microcomputers and Word Processing Programs: An Evaluation and Critique, page 53
    • Microsoft Word doesn’t make you look under the hood and be your own mechanic just to unboldface or uncenter a bit of text.1988 November 29, Dean Hannotte, “WordPerfect”, in PC Magazine, volume 7, number 20, page 132

Examples of unboldface in a sentence

  • Unboldfacing Text / To unboldface a block of text, use these steps. ① Move the cursor to the first character of the text to be unboldfaced—in this case, to the U in U.S.1991, Nelda Shelton, Sharon Burton, Using WordPerfect 5.1 (Houghton Mifflin Software Solutions Series), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN...
  • Click the button a second time to “unboldface” the text, making it regular text.1998, Ralph Grabowski, editor, Using AutoCAD Release 14, Autodesk Press, page 13-18:
  • When you click on the Bold command the first time, Excel may actually unboldface cell A3, leaving the other cells alone.2009, John C. Tredennick, The Lawyer’s Guide to Microsoft® Excel 2007, American Bar Association, →ISBN:

Forms of unboldface

third-person singular presentunboldfaces
present participleunboldfacing
past participleunboldfaced
pastunboldfaced

Origin of unboldface

From un- + boldface.

Questions about unboldface

What does unboldface mean?
Unboldface means to make not boldface.
How do you use unboldface in a sentence?
Unboldfacing Text / To unboldface a block of text, use these steps. ① Move the cursor to the first character of the text to be unboldfaced—in this case, to the U in U.S.
What part of speech is unboldface?
Unboldface is a verb.
What is the past tense of unboldface?
The past tense of unboldface is unboldfaced.

Words near unboldface in the dictionary

  1. unboils
  2. unboisterous
  3. unbold
  4. unbolded
  5. unboldened
  6. unboldface
  7. unboldfaced
  8. unboldfaces
  9. unboldfacing
  10. unbolding
  11. unboldly

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