Definitions for emphatic

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emphatic em·phat·ic

Spelling: [em-fat-ik]

IPA: /ɛmˈfæt ɪk/

Emphatic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 357 anagrams from letters in emphatic (acehimpt).

Definitions for emphatic

noun

1. an emphatic consonant.

adjective

1. uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
2. using emphasis in speech or action.
3. forceful; insistent:
4. very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking:
5. clearly or boldly outlined:
6. Grammar. of or relating to a form used to add emphasis, especially, in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.
7. Phonetics. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.

Origin of emphatic

1700-10; Greek emphatikós indicative, forceful, equivalent to *emphat(ós) (em- em-² + phatós, variant of phantós visible, equival

Examples for emphatic

It was their sole, emphatic mission to kill, burn, and destroy.

They were aware that Arulai's "marks" were likely to be emphatic, for Arulai never does things by halves.

It is a creepy sound, inhumanly high-pitched and strangely clipped and emphatic: “S-s-eeg maheevoh s-s-speeree.”

With a commanding voice and an emphatic, Emeril-esque “WOW!”

"I earned that, Martin," she returned determinedly to his emphatic remonstrance.

The CDC too, has been emphatic in their promotion of the technique.

At the 92Y talk, de la Renta was emphatic about the future of his label.

He stepped closer to the Lakonian, and spoke with emphatic briefness.

The adjudication of the Daily Beast office was clear and emphatic: penguin, penguin, penguin.

But as for the liner, it continued with its emphatic reiteration.