unemphatic

Examples

• All

• The movie had an unemphatic ending that didn't leave a strong impression on the audience.

• We hope that the strong, if unemphatic, win in Colorado Springs—that, like the four-goal deficit in Denver the night before, was not indicative of how well Lowell played—can lead to two or even four points this coming weekend.

  Blog text (5)

• I was struck by the verse, unemphatic as the singing.

  Fiction book (1991)

• She kept the syllable tight, deliberately unemphatic.

  Fiction book (2002)

• On the book's final pages, a long series of portraits run toward a decidedly unemphatic endpoint: a simple portrait of a teenage girl.

  Academic text (2003)

• In his unemphatic manner, Taylor went on to enumerate his objections to literary politicking, to careerism, and to the pursuit of meaningless prizes.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Instead, we find Pritchard becoming irritated by Harold Bloom's assessment that there is no poet "who insists upon so subtly unemphatic a pervasive tone" as Ashbery.

  Academic text (1996)

• The professor delivered his lecture in an unemphatic tone, making it difficult for the students to stay engaged.

• Her comments were mostly unemphatic, leaving us unsure of her true feelings about the project.

Synonyms

U

uninflected

vsunemphatic

1 8.0

Speech that stays flat and shows little feeling

means absence of deliberate vocal stress rather than simple monotone

U

unemphasized

vsunemphatic

5.1

Not given special attention or stress in speaking and writing

focuses on not being expressed with strong vocal stress

U

unrhetorical

vsunemphatic

• Formal

9.1

Plain language that avoids fancy or exaggerated words

refers to absence of spoken or written stress rather than plain wording

Antonyms

E

emphatic

23 5.2

It shows strong feeling and makes a point clearly

How Emphatic

forceful

62 4.3

emphatic

23 5.2

emphasized

• US

3.7

unemphatic

1 6.2

muted

10 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology