adj.
Pronunciation: im- ' fa-tik, em-
Function: 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 \ - ' fa-ti-k( ə -)l ē \ adverb