boldface

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noun

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

“Boldface the due date so they are sure to see it.”

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Meanings

nounboldface (countable and uncountable, plural boldfaces)

plural boldfaces

  1. countableuncountablemediaA font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines.
verbboldface (third-person singular simple present boldfaces, present participle boldfacing, simple past and past participle boldfaced)

present singular third person boldfaces · participle present boldfacing · participle past boldfaced · past boldfaced

  1. To print or write in a boldfaced font.

    Boldface the due date so they are sure to see it.

    Synonyms: bold, embolden

adjectiveboldface (comparative more boldface, superlative most boldface)

comparative more boldface · superlative most boldface

  1. Synonym of boldfaced.

    It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.

    2005, Leigh E. Zeitz, Keyboarding Made Simple, Made Simple Books
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    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.”

    1975, Fair Trade Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 34

    If you make a word boldface, it is boldface on the screen.

    1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 396

    ([…]; although it was boldface, it did not stand out because all the type on the label was bold).

    2001, Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, West Group, page 480

    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.

    2021, Zhiwei Xu, Jialin Zhang, Computational Thinking: A Perspective on Computer Science, Springer Nature Singapore, →ISBN, page 192

    Musk’s right-wing turn isn’t universal or even typical: Reporting suggests that even with the rightward turn of several boldface names, Silicon Valley remains heavily Democratic.

    2024 September 26, Paul Krugman, “The Tech Bro Style in American Politics”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

    Synonyms: boldfaced

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo print or write in a boldfaced font.

adjectiveSynonym of boldfaced.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna typeface with thick heavy lines

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bold facebold

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan negreta
  • negretaa font with thicker strokes
Esperanto grasa tiparfasono
  • grasa tiparfasonoa font with thicker strokes
Finnish lihavointi
  • lihavointia font with thicker strokes
German Fettschrift
  • Fettschrifta font with thicker strokes
Hindi मोटे अक्षर
  • मोटे अक्षर (moṭe akṣar)a font with thicker strokes
Italian grassetto
  • grassettoa font with thicker strokes
Polish drukowanie techniką bold
  • drukowanie techniką bolda font with thicker strokes
Portuguese negrito
  • negritoa font with thicker strokes
Russian жи́рный шрифт, полужи́рный шрифт
  • жи́рный шрифт (žírnyj šrift)a font with thicker strokes
  • полужи́рный шрифт (polužírnyj šrift)a font with thicker strokes
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APA

boldface. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boldface

MLA

“boldface.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boldface. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boldface,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boldface.

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