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pronounced
[ pruh-nounst ]
adjective
- strongly marked:
a pronounced fishy taste.
Synonyms: unmistakable, distinct
- clearly indicated:
a pronounced contrast.
- decided; unequivocal:
pronounced views.
pronounced
/ prəˈnaʊnsɪdlɪ; prəˈnaʊnst /
adjective
- strongly marked or indicated
- (of a sound) articulated with vibration of the vocal cords; voiced
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Derived Forms
- pronouncedly, adverb
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Other Words From
- pro·nounc·ed·ly [pr, uh, -, noun, -sid-lee, -, nounst, -lee], adverb
- pro·nounced·ness noun
- unpro·nounced adjective
- well-pro·nounced adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pronounced1
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Example Sentences
Both officers were rushed to Woodhull Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Ramos and Liu were now rushed to nearby Woodhull Hospital, where one was pronounced dead.
Efforts to resuscitate her failed and she was pronounced dead at nearby Albert Einstein Medical Center.
Garner was pronounced dead an hour later, and the city coroner ruled his death a homicide.
Another incident, in January, involved a Kenyan man, Paul Mutora, who woke up in the morgue 15 hours after being pronounced dead.
A woe is pronounced against sinners: the army of God shall send against them.
D'Israeli loved the long pipe in his youth, but in middle age pronounced it 'the tomb of love.'
Our prisoner's was perhaps the most startling name which could have been pronounced among those high-blooded and headlong men.
Gradually the muffled beat of hoofs grew more pronounced, a shuffling monotone that filled the night.
I should like to read—'They ne made force of privetee'; pronounced They n' mad-e, &c.
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