emphasized

Having been given extra stress or focus.

Adjective

  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...
    • 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

more emphasized most emphasized

Derived

nonemphasized overemphasized underemphasized unemphasized

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of emphasize