boldface

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
8

Definition of boldface

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.

verb

  1. To print or write in a boldfaced font.
    “Boldface the due date so they are sure to see it.”

adj

  1. Synonym of boldfaced.
    “While the retailer talks about savings of 10 percent off on every item in stock in very boldface type, there is a fine line that indicates at the bottom of the ad, “with the exception of a few fair trade items.””
    “If you make a word boldface, it is boldface on the screen.”
    “([…]; although it was boldface, it did not stand out because all the type on the label was bold).”
    “It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.”
    “Unicode is constrained. It focuses on one essential task: encoding the world’s writing systems, or character sets. It ignores issues such as the font, the size, the alignment of the character, whether it is boldface or italic, etc.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From bold + face.

Words you can make from boldface

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6-letter words

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5-letter words

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4-letter words

64 words

3-letter words

50 words

2-letter words

20 words

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