Synonyms for Under-scoring:

• n.

  •emphasis (noun)
  • impressiveness,
  • positiveness,
  • force,
  • underscoring,
  • moment,
  • attention,
  • insistence,
  • preeminence,
  • priority,
  • accentuation,
  • intensity,
  • decidedness,
  • headline,
  • significance,
  • underlining,
  • power,
  • strength,
  • weight.

• v.

  •accent (verb)
  • emphasize,
  • underline,
  • underscore,
  • intensify.
  •accentuate (verb)
  • point up,
  • bring attention to,
  • give prominence to,
  • spotlight.
  •emphasize (verb)
  • make a point,
  • insist on,
  • press,
  • HIT,
  • pinpoint,
  • limelight,
  • assert,
  • reiterate,
  • pronounce,
  • dramatize,
  • maintain,
  • enunciate,
  • enlarge,
  • labor the point,
  • put accent on,
  • impress,
  • articulate,
  • make clear,
  • punctuate,
  • bear down,
  • charge,
  • make much of,
  • rub in,
  • make emphatic,
  • play up,
  • point out,
  • affirm,
  • repeat,
  • dwell on.
  •feature (verb)
  • blaze,
  • make conspicuous,
  • advertise,
  • promote,
  • set off,
  • present,
  • star.
  •play up (verb)
  • magnify,
  • make a production of,
  • turn spotlight on,
  • bring to the fore.
  •stress (verb)
  • belabor,
  • harp on,
  • lay emphasis on,
  • spot.
  •underline (verb)
  • bracket,
  • rule,
  • interlineate,
  • check off.
  •underscore (verb)
  • accentuate,
  • stress,
  • indicate,
  • draw attention to,
  • accent,
  • italicize,
  • mark,
  • call attention to,
  • point to,
  • give emphasis,
  • caption,
  • feature,
  • highlight.

Antonyms for Under-scoring:

• n.

  • emphasis
    incompetence, weakness, ignorance, lethargy, unimportance, insignificance, triviality.

• v.

  • accent
    minimize, Disacknowledge.
  • accentuate
    mask, divert attention from.
  • emphasize
    lose, mumble, deny, play down, forget, ignore, understate, depreciate.
  • feature
    disregard.
  • italicize
    conceal, neglect, hide.
  • play up
    underrate, deemphasize, undervalue.
  • stress
    attenuate, relax, reduce.