emphatic

Meanings

Adjective

• Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
• Stated with conviction.
• Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
• Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Semitic languages that are distinguished from both voiced and voiceless consonants by a certain phonetic feature or features.

Noun

• An emphatic consonant.
• A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".

Origin

• From Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός ("emphatic"), from ἐμφαίνω, from ἐν + φαίνω; related to ἔμφασις and English emphasis.