emphatic

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 1.98 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
2. adjective Stated with conviction.

   He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.

3. adjective Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
4. adjective Relating to an emphatic pronoun, or a noun with an emphatic suffix attached to it.

   In Irish, the emphatic form of "mé" is "mise".

5. adjective Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
6. adjective Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
7. adjective Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
8. adjective Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).

Similar words

assertive forceful stressed exclamatory emphasized powerful resolutely explicit strong resolute

Often followed by

in and that about words manner than language on

Word family

emphasis emphasise emphasised emphasising emphasize emphasized emphasizes emphasizing emphatically