| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 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.[Websters]
2. Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible.[Websters] 3. Being bold or intrepid. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb emphatically.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (emphatically) | 1. Without question and beyond doubt.[Wordnet]. 2. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preeminently.[Websters]. 3. Not really, but apparently.[Websters]. 4. In a stout, stalwart, thriving, big or strong manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a tough, concrete or insistent manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a broad, distinct, unequivocal or clear manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In a specific or explicit manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In an unconditional, definite or absolute manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a categorical or plump manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. In a forceful or dynamical manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EMPHATICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EMPHATICAL
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Forcible; strong; impressive; as an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.. | 2: [Adjective] Requiring emphasis; as an emphatical word.. | 3: [Adjective] Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] emphatic. (references) | ||
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