make a point

Verb

Meaning

make a point of doing something; act purposefully and intentionally

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Alternative names

make-a-point

Synonyms

feature maintain indicate comment repeat emphasize accent assert foreground affirm pronounce articulate impress underline underscore

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Antonyms

burke pooh bash cut shun avoid

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Hypernyms

move act

Examples

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded. Julia Roberts

Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done? Richard Nixon

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully. Hunter S. Thompson

I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work. P. L. Travers

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. Brian Eno

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes. Natalie Portman

Close letter words and terms

make a pile make a place one's home make a play make a point of make a post make a present of