FromAncient Greekἐμφατικός(emphatikós,“emphatic”), fromἐμφαίνω(emphaínō,“I show, present”), fromἐν(en,“in”) +φαίνω(phaínō,“I shine, show”); related toἔμφασις(émphasis) and Englishemphasis.
emphatic (comparativemoreemphatic,superlativemostemphatic)
- Characterized byemphasis;forceful.
2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, inthe Guardian[1]:Yet when play restarted theCzech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet anotheremphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
- Stated withconviction.
He gave me anemphatic no when I asked him out.
- (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verbdo + an infinitive withoutto.
- (phonology) Belonging to a series ofobstruentconsonants in severalAfro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by aguttural(co-)articulation.
- Antonym:plain
- pharyngealized consonants inArabic,Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, andBerber languages
- ejective consonants inGe'ez,Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages,Chadic andCushitic languages
- (phonology, archaic except in layman’s use) Referring to the above consonants as well as/ħ/ and/ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of/h/ and/ʔ/).
characterized by emphasis
- Bulgarian:подчертан (bg)(podčertan),емфати́чен (bg)(emfatíčen)
- Catalan:emfàtic
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:强调 (zh)(qiáng diào)
- Czech:důrazný
- Danish:emfatisk
- Dutch:nadrukkelijk (nl),emfatisch (nl)
- French:emphatique (fr)
- Galician:enfático (gl)
- Georgian:please add this translation if you can
- Greek:κατηγορηματικός (el)(katigorimatikós)
- Hungarian:hangsúlyos (hu),nyomatékos (hu)
- Ido:emfazala (io),emfazoza (io),emfazatra (io),emfazema
- Italian:enfatico (it),accentuato (it)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:emfatisk
- Nynorsk:emfatisk
- Occitan:emfatic (oc)
- Polish:dobitny (pl),dosadny (pl),wyraźny (pl)
- Portuguese:enfático (pt)
- Romanian:emfatic (ro)
- Russian:вырази́тельный (ru)(vyrazítelʹnyj),эмфати́ческий (ru)(emfatíčeskij),выделенный (ru)(vydelennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic:làidir
- Spanish:enfático (es)
- Swedish:emfatisk (sv)
- Turkish:vurgulu (tr)
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belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb 'do' + an infinitive without 'to'
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emphatic (pluralemphatics)
- (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
- (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".
