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emphatic
[ em-fat-ik ]
adjective
- uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- using emphasis in speech or action.
- forceful; insistent:
a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.
Synonyms: , , , , , ,
Antonyms:
- very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking:
the emphatic beauty of sunset.
- clearly or boldly outlined:
It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.
- Grammar. of or relating to a form used to add emphasis, especially, in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.
- Phonetics. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.
noun
- an emphatic consonant.
emphatic
/ ɪˈæɪ /
adjective
- expressed, spoken, or done with emphasis
- forceful and positive; definite; direct
an emphatic personality
- sharp or clear in form, contour, or outline
- important or significant; stressed
the emphatic points in an argument
- phonetics denoting certain dental consonants of Arabic that are pronounced with accompanying pharyngeal constriction
noun
- phonetics an emphatic consonant, as used in Arabic
Other Word Forms
- ·i·· adverb
- ·i··Ա noun
- ܲe·i adjective
- un·i·· adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of emphatic1
Example Sentences
My delivery, I think, was not emphatic as some might imagine it would be.
Ostapenko raced to victory in emphatic style by reeling off five games in a row.
So let us be emphatic: We acknowledge women.
It's certainly true that the eligibility criteria has broadened dramatically since the law was introduced nine years ago, so for critics the answer would be an emphatic yes and serve as a warning to Britain.
When I started working for Keir four years ago, not many people thought we could win a general election and certainly not in the emphatic way we did.
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