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adj. Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic "no.”

adj. Forceful and definite in expression or action.

adj. Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way.

adj. Characterized by emphasis.

adj. Stated with conviction.

adj. belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to

adj. of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.

n. an emphatic consonant

adj. Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong

adj. Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible.

adj. Forceful and definite in expression or action; -- of statements, actions, or sections of documents.

adj. Sudden and strong; -- of statements.

Uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis or stress of voice: as, the emphatic words in a sentence.

Forcibly significant; expressive; impressive: as, an emphatic gesture.

Synonyms Expressive, earnest, energetic, striking.

adj. forceful and definite in expression or action

adj. sudden and strong

adj. spoken with emphasis

"Only slighly less annoying—and a by product of using emphasis too often—is what I call the emphatic emphasis: emphasizing a sentence or phrase with, for example, italics, and then emphasizing again a word within the phrase with bold, underlining, or caps."

assertive    self-asserting    self-assertive    forceful    stressed    accented   

apathetic   

phatic   

emphasise    emphasis    emphasize   

emphatically   

forcible    impressive    strong    forceful    decided    significant    intensive    expressive    positive    energetic   

Adriatic    Asiatic    Attic    Charismatic    Democratic    Hanseatic    Hippocratic    Socratic    acrobatic    adriatic   

decisive    curt    vehement    explicit    forceful    vigorous    solemn    authoritative    eloquent    unequivocal