Words and phrases that have a meaning related to accent: (212 results)
Antonyms:
deemphasize, destress
Often used in the same context:
brogue, drawl, lilt, dialect, twang, brooklynese, inflections, colloquialisms, lisp, diction, patois, pronunciation, vowels, intonations, received pronunciation, nasal twang, mannerisms, affectation, pidgin english, cockney, idiom, diphthongs, nasality, pidgin, timbre, glottal stop, pronounciation, enunciation, yokel, cadences, monoglot, phonetics, franglais, ness, guttural, monotone, sensibility, mispronunciation, tildes, ancestry, smirk, slangs, colloquial, plumy, consonants, vernacular, huskiness, language, baritone, earthiness, sarcasm, muttonchops, charm, wryness, upbringing, singsong, hick, flair, scots gaelic, suaveness, brummy, chirpiness, mien, corn pone, boyishness, quaver, bumpkin, winey, tongue, chappy, foreignness, inferiority complex, sophisticate, fluency, dulcet, cognates, patter, cheekbones, physiognomy, flavor, subtitles, squinty, rasp, argot, stammer, elocution, affectless, pushtu, sneery, hauteur, maidenhair fern, shtick, burr, throaty, englishness, exoticness, character, ponce, charmer, ocker, rarebit, accents, intonation, nationality, inflection, nativity, contingent, idioms, proverb, regiments, universities, accentual, consonant, linguistic, conventional, discernible, intonational, vowel, chromatic, control, diachronic, distinguishable, emergent, morphological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, populational, tional, tonal, cohort
More specific:
acute, acute accent, ague, background, bear down, drive home, emphasize, focus, foreground, grave, grave accent, highlight, pick up, pitch accent, play down, play up, point up, press home, raise, re-emphasise, re-emphasize, sentence stress, spotlight, stress, stress mark, tonic accent, underline, underscore, word accent, word stress
Appears in the definition of:
accentual, accentuate, accentuation, beat, broad, cadence, clipped, curious, measure, meter, metre, misplaced, oxytone, paroxytone, proparoxytone, separative, stress, stressed, syllabic, trace, unaccented, unique, unrhythmic, unrhythmical, unstressed, valse, waltz
More general:
alter, articulate, change, diacritic, diacritical mark, enounce, enunciate, evince, express, grandness, importance, non-standard speech, pronounce, prosody, say, show
Synonyms:
Also try:accent mark, bring out, emphasis, punctuate, set off, speech pattern
— Adjectives for accent: foreign, strong, english, southern, french, german, thick, heavy, american, british, slight, more...
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