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Definition of Emphatic

1. Adjective. Spoken with emphasis. "An emphatic word"

2. Adjective. Sudden and strong. "An emphatic no"

3. Adjective. Forceful and definite in expression or action. "The document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"

Definition of Emphatic

1. a. Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in an emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning.

Definition of Emphatic

1. Adjective. Characterized by emphasis. ¹

2. Adjective. Stated with conviction. ¹

3. Adjective. belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to ¹

4. Adjective. (phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages. ¹

5. Noun. (phonology) an emphatic consonant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Emphatic

1. strongly expressive [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emphatic

emphasis emphasise emphasised emphasiser emphasisers emphasises emphasising emphasizable emphasization emphasize

emphasized emphasizer emphasizers emphasizes emphasizing emphatic (current term) emphatical emphatically emphaticalness emphatick

emphlysis emphractic emphraxis emphrensied emphysema emphysemas emphysematous emphysematous cholecystitis emphysematous cystitis emphysematous gangrene

Literary usage of Emphatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The testimony of Swinton, himself an eyewitness, is more emphatic and complete. ' It took hardly more than ten ' minutes to decide the battle. ..."

2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"lays a metrical accent on an unemphatic syllable short in quantity, placing after it an emphatic monosyllable, long in quantity, without the metrical accent ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... now again returned, bringing with it emphatic and unmistakable explanation of its cause. GVD ASTRONOMICAL NOTES. A NEW SATELLITE OF SATURN. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... and felt no more this bête noir of earlier days, now again returned, bringing with it emphatic and unmistakable explanation of its cause. ..."

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