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Definition of Emphatically
1. Adverb. Without question and beyond doubt. "By all odds they should win"
Partainyms: Decided, Emphatic, Unquestionable
Definition of Emphatically
1. adv. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently.
Definition of Emphatically
1. Adverb. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis. ¹
2. Adverb. (obsolete) Not really, but apparently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emphatically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emphatically
Literary usage of Emphatically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"He, emphatically, opened my mind, and taught me to think and to use my reason.'
'Don't you think, Colonel, that "emphatically opened my mind " is a queer ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... boy answered emphatically, " No, I'm not." So the minister gave him a nickel,
patted him on the head, and passed on. "Well," said the boy, thoughtfully, ..."
3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"... emphatically a city set upon a hill. It has an altitude of ANCIENT JERUSALEM.
twenty-six hundred feet above the sea. Built on a natural bluff, ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Jerusalem is emphatically a city set upon a hill. It has an altitude of ANCIENT
JERUSALEM. twenty-six hundred feet above the sea. Built on a natural bluff, ..."
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