-
"the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"nounspecial importance or significance
Similar:
type of: -
verbto stress, single out as important
Similar:
-
"he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"noundistinctive manner of oral expression
Similar:
type of: -
nounthe relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)type of:
-
"he has a strong German accent"nounthe usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of peopletype of:
-
nouna diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Similar:
type of: -
"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"verbput stress on; utter with an accent
Similar:
Synonyms & Similar Words
say show focus grave express stress background importance pronounce dialect acute emphasize articulate emphasis pronunciation underline idiom accentuate emphasise enunciate drawl downplay inflection underscore punctuate patois grandness accentuation ague evince re-emphasise re-emphasize press home set off bear down point up play down topicalize drive home bring out ram home speech pattern prosody tonic accent word accent word stress sentence stress pitch accent accentual non-standard speech eye dialect accent mark diacritic diacritical mark acute accent grave accent stress mark enounce sound out