Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pronounced \Pro*nounced"\, a. [F. prononc['e].]
Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.
Note: [A Gallicism]
[His] views became every day more pronounced.
--Thackeray.
Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pronounced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Pronounging}.] [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare;
pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See
{Announce}.]
1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to
utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper
sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a
foreign language correctly.
2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree
or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction.
--Milton.
3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as,
to pronounce an oration.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you. --Shak.
4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a
libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
The God who hallowed thee and blessed, Pronouncing
thee all good. --Keble.
Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See {Deliver}.
Source : WordNet®
pronounced
adj 1: strongly marked; easily noticeable; "walked with a marked
limp"; "a pronounced flavor of cinnamon" [syn: {marked}]
2: produced by the organs of speech