unemphatic
adjective
un·em·phat·ic
| \ ˌən-im-ˈfa-tik
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Definition of unemphatic
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Other Words from unemphatic
unemphatically
\ ˌən-im-ˈfa-ti-k(ə-)lē
, -em- \
adverb
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adverb
speaking slowly and unemphatically
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The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again. — Jon Pareles, New York Times, "The Playlist: Christine and the Queens’ Clever Pop, and 8 More New Songs," 6 July 2018 This 1991 feature, the second by Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro, is leisurely paced and unemphatic but firmly conceived and executed, with a lot of feeling for female solidarity. — Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, "Dance / Film / Foreign / Gender Issues / Moviegoing / Old Movies to Watch Now / On Video Five classic films by Latin American women," 17 Apr. 2018 This line, delivered in his usual uninflected, unemphatic tone, is chilling, something that the villain in a Hitchcock thriller, one of those immaculately amoral gentleman-monsters, might have said. — Lili Anolik, Vanities, "Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick: A Brief, White-Hot, and Totally Doomed Romance," 14 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unemphatic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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