[em-fat-ik] 
| 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. |
| 8. | an emphatic consonant. |
| em·phat·ic (ěm-fāt'ĭk) adj.
[Medieval Latin emphaticus, from Greek emphatikos, from emphainein, to exhibit, display; see emphasis.] em·phat'i·cal·ly adv. |