Thesaurus / unemphatic
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synonyms for unemphatic
- camouflaged
- concealed
- dim
- faint
- having
- hidden
- indistinct
- insignificant
- low-key
- low-profile
- modest
- muted
- obscure
- ordinary
- plain
- quiet
- retiring
- secretive
- shy
- soft-pedalled
- subtle
- tenuous
- unassuming
- unnoticeable
- unobtrusive
- unostentatious
- unobtrusive
- camouflaged
- concealed
- dim
- faint
- having
- hidden
- indistinct
- insignificant
- low-key
- low-profile
- modest
- muted
- obscure
- ordinary
- plain
- quiet
- retiring
- secretive
- shy
- soft-pedalled
- subtle
- tenuous
- unassuming
- unconspicuous
- unostentatious
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How to use unemphatic in a sentence
The subject pronoun, when unemphatic, is not expressed, but understood from the termination of the verb.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERWhen he spoke of his "visions," it was in the ordinary unemphatic tones in which we speak of every-day matters.
LIBRARY NOTESA. P. RUSSELLThus, in the unemphatic parts he would turn away and not be continually “nosing his interlocutor” or talking directly to him.
BROWNING AND THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES. S. CURRYIn unemphatic words, it was also frequently mute; so that hit was frequently written it, as in modern English.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 6 (OF 7) -- INTRODUCTION, GLOSSARY, AND INDEXESGEOFFREY CHAUCERThe unemphatic way in which she sometimes made important suggestions was one of Aunt Elsies peculiarities.
WHEAT AND HUCKLEBERRIESCHARLOTTE MARION (WHITE) VAILEGive examples of words or phrases which when repeated become unemphatic, more emphatic, equivalent to a climax.
THE ONTARIO HIGH SCHOOL READERA.E. MARTYDick's demeanour was as unemphatic as she remembered it always to have been.
THE NEST, THE WHITE PAGODA, THE SUICIDE, A FORSAKEN TEMPLE, MISS JONES AND THE MASTERPIECEANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKMr. Galsworthy's more delicate and unemphatic art eludes this danger, at any rate in Strife.
PLAY-MAKINGWILLIAM ARCHERBy an "unemphatic ending" I am far from meaning a makeshift ending, an ending carelessly and conventionally huddled up.
PLAY-MAKINGWILLIAM ARCHERIt is probable that the lighter form of the word was intended to be used when it was quite unemphatic.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTONJOHN MILTONWORDS RELATED TO UNEMPHATIC
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