Meaning

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

    Fettschrift

    жи́рный шрифтžírnyj šrift, полужи́рный шрифтpolužírnyj šrift

More definitions
  • a typeface with thick heavy lines

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I've boldfaced the articles that I found interesting.

    deDie Artikel, die ich interessant fand, strich ich dick an. — Sudajaengi

  2. That's a boldfaced lie.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a font with thicker strokes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a font with thicker strokes:

Origin

From bold + face.

From bold + face.

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Forms

plural: boldfaces
Singularboldface
Pluralboldfaces

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a typeface with thick heavy lines:bold facebold

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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