EMPHATIC


Meaning of EMPHATIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ im-ˈfa-tik, em- ]

adjective

Etymology: Greek emphatikos, from emphainein

Date: 1635

1. : uttered with or marked by emphasis

an emphatic refusal

2. : tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action

3. : attracting special attention

4. : constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something

• em·phat·i·cal·ly -ˈfa-ti-k(ə-)lē adverb

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.