Emphasize vs Imply - What's the difference?
emphasize | imply |
To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
(of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence
(of a person) to suggest by logical inference
(of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
(archaic) to enfold, entangle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
As verbs the difference between emphasize and imply
is that emphasize is to stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something) while imply is (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence.emphasize
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Alternative forms
* emphasiseVerb
(emphasiz)- His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.
Synonyms
* betone * stress * underscoreAntonyms
* de-emphasize * downplayDerived terms
* reemphasize * overemphasize * underemphasizeimply
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The proposition that "all dogs are mammals" implies that my dog is a mammal
- When I state that your dog is brown, I am not implying that all dogs are brown
- What do you mean "we need to be more careful with hygiene"? Are you implying that I don't wash my hands?
- And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes .