emphatically

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/ɪmˈfætɪkli/

adverb

In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

“The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.”

Less commonScrabble 24

Meanings

adverbemphatically (comparative more emphatically, superlative most emphatically)

comparative more emphatically · superlative most emphatically

  1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

    The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.

    2 more examples

    Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word.

    1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

    Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.

    2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport
  2. modalMost definitely; truly.

    He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

    1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC
  3. obsoleteNot really, but apparently.

    I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbwithout question and beyond doubt

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan emfàticament
  • emfàticamentin an emphatic manner
Dutch nadrukkelijk
  • nadrukkelijkin an emphatic manner
Esperanto emfaze
  • emfazein an emphatic manner
Greek κατηγορηματικά, εμφατικά
  • κατηγορηματικά (katigorimatiká)in an emphatic manner
  • εμφατικά (emfatiká)in an emphatic manner
Italian enfaticamente, con forza
  • enfaticamentein an emphatic manner
  • con forzain an emphatic manner
  • con decisionein an emphatic manner
Portuguese enfaticamente
  • enfaticamentein an emphatic manner
Spanish enfáticamente
  • enfáticamentein an emphatic manner
Swedish eftertryckligt
  • eftertryckligtin an emphatic manner

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