boldface en · ADJ
Etymology
From bold + face.
Meanings
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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.”
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:It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.
2005, Leigh E. Zeitz, Keyboarding Made Simple, Made Simple Books: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:There were lavish dinners with boldface names at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on the Upper East Side and raucous parties with cheerleaders and models at Mr. Trump’s private club and residence at Mar-a-Lago.
2025 July 19, Alan Feuer, Matthew Goldstein, “Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most boldface | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more boldface | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |