pronounced
pronunciation
How to pronounce pronounced in British English:
UK [prəˈnaʊnst]
How to pronounce pronounced in American English:
US [prəˈnaʊnst]
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- Adjective:
- strongly marked; easily noticeable
- produced by the organs of speech
Word Origin
- pronounced (adj.)
- "spoken," 1570s, past participle adjective from pronounce (v.). Sense of "emphatic" is a figurative meaning first attested c. 1730.
Example
- 1. This rapid growth may lead to more pronounced fetal movements .
- 2. But it is in the job market that the rewards are particularly pronounced .
- 3. But the democrats pronounced the idea dead on arrival , and the president lacks the political capital to override their objections .
- 4. He commented that the results of the research are important because they seem to contradict the nearly universal notion that at a sufficiently large scale , the universe is isotropic , i.e. , does not have a pronounced direction .
- 5. This is bad news : pronounced brain atrophy is a feature of dementia .