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Definition of Emphatic

Emphatic
Emphatic Em*phat"ic, Emphatical Em*phat"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. emphatique. See Emphasis.] 1. 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 am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning. 2. Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible. ``Emphatical colors.' --Boyle. ``Emphatical evils.' --Bp. Reynolds. Syn: Forcible; earnest; impressive; energetic; striking; positive; important; special; significant.

Meaning of Emphatic from wikipedia

- Look up emphasis or emphatic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Emphasis or emphatic may refer to: Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration...
- The Emphatic Diaglott is a diaglot, or two-language polyglot translation, of the New Testament by Benjamin Wilson, first published in 1864. It is an interlinear...
- IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Semitic linguistics, an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted, and often...
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- reads: Fatal Consequences of Spain's Bloody War with Bonaparte, and Other Emphatic Caprices (Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte...
- vowel phonemes. All phonemes contrast between "emphatic" (pharyngealized) consonants and non-emphatic ones. Some of these phonemes have coalesced in the...
- consonant system is based on triads of related voiceless, voiced and "emphatic" consonants. Five such triads are reconstructed in Proto-Semitic: Dental...
- when non-emphatic, but alveolar and completely unaspirated when emphatic. CA /r/ is also in the process of splitting into emphatic and non-emphatic varieties...
- myself. Self-intensifiers have also been called simply "intensifiers", or "emphatic reflexives", or "intensive reflexives". In many languages, they are similar...
- multiple negatives affirm each other are said to have negative concord or emphatic negation. Lithuanian, Portuguese, Persian, French, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian...