Meanings
comparative more emphatically · superlative most emphatically
- 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 NicklebyDos 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 - 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 - 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.
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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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Cite this entry
emphatically. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emphatically
“emphatically.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/emphatically. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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