Usually means: Expressing something forcefully and clearly.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word emphatic:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. emphatic: Merriam-Webster
  2. emphatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emphatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emphatic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emphatic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emphatic, emphatic: Wordnik
  7. emphatic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emphatic: Wiktionary
  9. emphatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emphatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emphatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Emphatic, emphatic: Dictionary.com
  13. emphatic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Emphatic (band), Emphatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emphatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emphatic: Rhymezone
  17. emphatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. emphatic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. emphatic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. emphatic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. emphatic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. emphatic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emphatic: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
adjective:  Stated with conviction.
adjective:  (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
adjective:  (phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
adjective:  pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages
adjective:  ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages
adjective:  (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/).
noun:  (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
noun:  (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".

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