UNEMPHATIC Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

unemphatic

adjective

Definition of unemphatic

as in mild

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as in inconspicuous

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Recent Examples of unemphatic The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again. — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 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, 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, 14 Dec. 2017

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Adjective

Petersen’s research established the concept of mild cognitive impairment, which lies between healthy cognitive aging and dementia.

— Richard Sima, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Dunlap is also mild-mannered next to LePage and almost as well-known.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of mild

Adjective

Where earlier data centers were inconspicuous, the hyperscale facilities developers want to build in Arizona — often on rural farm or desert land — are both massive and incongruous.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026
Conservators also remove inconspicuous (often inauthentic) additions.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of inconspicuous

Adjective

People who knew Zhang described him to police as a nonassertive man who avoided conflict and typically acquiesced to his wife.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
Those who saw an assertive ad chose to allocate $7 of the gift card to the brand on average, compared with $14 for those who saw a nonassertive ad.

— Alina Dizik, WSJ, 16 May 2017

Definition of nonassertive

Adjective

Ordinary except, of course, for that time humans punched it, opening the door for the Hera mission to explore the previously unremarkable rocks.

— Meghan Bartels, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Can real transcendence come from sharing physical pleasures with unremarkable people who just happen to live in the same town as you?

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of unremarkable

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