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em⋅phat⋅ic

   [em-fat-ik]
–adjective
1. uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
2. using emphasis in speech or action.
3. forceful; insistent: a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.
4. very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking: the emphatic beauty of sunset.
5. clearly or boldly outlined: It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.
6. Grammar. of or pertaining to a form used to add emphasis, esp., in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.
7. Phonetics. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.
–noun
8. an emphatic consonant.
Origin:
1700–10; < Gk emphatikós indicative, forceful, equiv. to *emphat(ós) (em- em- 2 + phatós, var. of phantós visible, equiv. to phan-, s. of phaínesthai to appear + -tos adj. suffix) + -ikos -ic
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Emphaticalness

Em*phat"ic*al*ness\, n. The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.

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