Meaning

7 senses

  1. Characterized by emphasis; forceful.

    вырази́тельныйvyrazítelʹnyj, эмфати́ческийemfatíčeskij, выделенныйvydelennyj

    spoken with emphasis

  2. Stated with conviction.

    He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.

    категоричныйkategoričnyj

  3. Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.

  4. Relating to an emphatic pronoun, or a noun with an emphatic suffix attached to it.

    In Irish, the emphatic form of "mé" is "mise".

  5. Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.

    Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.

  6. Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.

  7. Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Tom is emphatic.

    Том рішучий. — deniko

    deTom ist überzeugend. — Felixjp

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  2. I have pretty much forgotten the emphatic constructions.

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  3. The Guanches, Igwanciyen, have apparently the same accent as the Tuaregs, with the same emphatic intonations of their warm voices.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
of emphatic consonants:
characterized by emphasis:
stated with conviction:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of emphatic consonants:

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I show, pr

From Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I show, present”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, show”); related to ἔμφασις (émphasis) and English emphasis.

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Forms

more emphatic, most emphatic
Comparativemore emphatic Lesson
Superlativemost emphatic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
pointeddistinct
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms
plainB1

Word family

11 related words
RelatedemphasisB1emphasizeB1emphasise
DerivedemphaticallyB2emphaticalemphaticnessemphatic pronounemphatic statenonemphaticoveremphaticunemphatic

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
empathyemperorB1emphasisB1emphasizeB1emphaticallyB2emphysemaempireB1empirical

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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