emphatic
emphatic Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Expressing something forcibly and clearly; uttered with or marked by strong emphasis.
"The committee issued an emphatic rejection of the proposed budget cuts."
Definite and unmistakable in character or result (especially of an action, achievement, or victory).
"The defending champions secured an emphatic victory in the final match of the tournament."
Bearing prosodic stress, grammatical emphasis, or distinctive phonological articulation such as pharyngealization (in linguistics).
"In English grammar, reflexive pronouns are often used as emphatic pronouns to highlight the subject."
• noun
An emphatic consonant, word, or grammatical form, especially a pharyngealized or glottalized consonant in Semitic and Afroasiatic languages.
"Students of classical Arabic must learn to distinguish plain dental stops from their corresponding emphatics."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin emphaticus, from Ancient Greek emphatikos ('expressive, vivid'), derived from emphainein ('to exhibit or display'), from en- ('in') and phainein ('to show').