emphatic

Speech parts

1. emphatic - Noun

2. emphatic - Adjective

3. emphatic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Emphatical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

forceful exclamatory emphasized emphasised certain sound strong clear flaming positive determined powerful marked distinct flat
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Antonyms

meek average affected academic weak embedded
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Phrases with the word

emphatic pronoun make emphatic emphatic exclamation

Anagrams

empathic

Examples

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth. Theodor Adorno

Do everything to demonstrate, and in the most emphatic manner, our sympathy for the Moslems, their autonomy, independence, etc. Vladimir Lenin

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. William Feather

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. F. L. Lucas

Fatal consequences of the bloody war against Bonaparte in Spain. And other emphatic caprices. Francisco Goya

If the glacier perceives a headless army is clumsy, it feels a sort of emphatic guilt, I dare say. Norwegian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

emphasizer emphasizing emphasizing pronoun emphatic exclamation emphatic pronoun emphatic state