- Types Of Speech
- You can use heighten as a verb in a sentence.
- About Heighten
- A 2 syllables verb and 8 letters with the letters e, g, h, i, n, and t, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters gh. Heighten starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters h, he, hei, heig, heigh, and the ending characters are n, en, ten, hten, ghten, ..
- Definition
- Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
- Pig Latin
- Heighten in Pig Latin is said as "eightenhay or eightenhway".
- Unigram
- h | e | i | g | h | t | e | n
- Bigram
- he | ei | ig | gh | ht | te | en
- Trigram
- hei | eig | igh | ght | hte | ten
- Quadrigram
- heig | eigh | ight | ghte | hten
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked;
"The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her";
"Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness";
"This event only deepened my convictions" - increase;
"This will enhance your enjoyment";
"heighten the tension" - make (one's senses) more acute;
"This drug will sharpen your vision" - make more extreme;
raise in quantity, degree, or intensity;
"heightened interest" - become more extreme;
"The tension heightened" - increase the height of;
"The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accelerate | move faster "The car accelerated" |
| Accessory | a supplementary component that improves capability |
| Acerbate | make sour or bitter |
| Acidity | the property of being acidic |
| Add On | |
| Add To | |
| Agent Provocateur | |
| Aggrandise | add details to |
| Aggrandize | add details to |
| Aggravate | make worse "This drug aggravates the pain" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Heighten
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Heighten | make more intense, stronger, or more marked "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness" "This event only deepened my convictions" |
View English words with the unique letters used in heighten. Words With The Letters Eghint
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Intensification | action that makes something stronger or more extreme |
| Intensifier | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies "`up'' in `finished up'' is an intensifier" "`honestly'' in `I honestly don''t know'' is an intensifier" |
| Intensity | chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue |
| Intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies "`up'' in `finished up'' is an intensifier" "`honestly'' in `I honestly don''t know'' is an intensifier" |
| Intensiveness | high level or degree the property of being intense |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Increase | the act of increasing something "he gave me an increase in salary" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Amplify | increase the volume of; "amplify sound" |
| Enhance | increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" |
| Fan | a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces |
| Heat Up | |
| Heighten | make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" |
| Hot Up | |
| Raise | the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" |
| Sharpen | put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie" |
Heighten Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With H
- Ends With N
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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