what does emphatic mean?

Answer 1

Emphatic: spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words

Emphatic
A adjective
1 emphatic, forceful
forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"
2 emphatic, exclamatory
sudden and strong; "an emphatic no"
3 emphatic, emphasized, emphasised
spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"

Answer 2

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em·phat·ic /ɛmˈfætɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[em-fat-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–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]

—Related forms
em·phat·i·cal·ly, adverb
em·phat·i·cal·ness, noun

—Synonyms 3. positive, energetic, forcible, pronounced, decided, unequivocal, definite.
—Antonyms 3. weak.
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em·phat·ic (ěm-fāt'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj.

1. Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic "no."
2. Forceful and definite in expression or action.
3. Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way.



[Medieval Latin emphaticus, from Greek emphatikos, from emphainein, to exhibit, display; see emphasis.]

em·phat'i·cal·ly adv.
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emphatic

adjective
1. spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"
2. sudden and strong; "an emphatic no"
3. forceful and definite in expression or action; "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty"

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source
emˈphatic [-ˈfӕ-] adjective
(negative unemphatic) expressed with emphasis; firm and definite
Example: an emphatic denial; He was most emphatic about the importance of arriving on time.
Arabic: تَوْكيدي
Chinese (Simplified): 强调的
Chinese (Traditional): 強調的
Czech: důrazný; rozhodný
Danish: bestemt
Dutch: nadrukkelijk
Estonian: rõhutatud
Finnish: painokas
French: catégorique
German: nachdrücklich
Greek: εμφατικός
Hungarian: nyomatékos
Icelandic: áherslumikill, eindreginn
Indonesian: tegas
Italian: risoluto, netto

Japanese: 断固とした
Korean: 강세가 있는, 단호한
Latvian: uzsvērts
Lithuanian: ryškus, atkaklus
Norwegian: ettertrykkelig, kraftig, bestemt
Polish: stanowczy
Portuguese (Brazil): enfático
Portuguese (Portugal): enfático
Romanian: cate­goric, total
Russian: категорический; настойчивый
Slovak: dôrazný
Slovenian: poudarjen
Spanish: enfático, enérgico
Swedish: eftertrycklig, bestämd, emfatisk
Turkish: üzerine basa basa söyleme
See also: emphasis, emphasize, emphasise






Emphatic consonant
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Emphatic consonant is a term widely used in Semitic linguistics to describe one of a series of obstruent consonants which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents. In specific Semitic languages the members of this series may be realized as pharyngealized, velarized, ejective or plain voiced or voiceless consonants. It is also used, to a lesser extent, to describe cognate series in other Afro-Asiatic languages, where they are typically realized as either ejective or implosive consonants. In Semitic studies they are commonly transcribed using the convention of placing a dot under the closest plain obstruent consonant in the Latin alphabet. With respect to particular Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages this term has come to be used more specifically to describe the particular phonetic feature which distinguishes these consonants from other consonants. Thus in Arabic emphasis is synonymous with a secondary articulation involving retraction of the dorsum or root of the tongue, which has variously been described as velarization, uvularization or pharyngealization depending on where the locus of the retraction is assumed to be. Within Arabic, the emphatic consonants have been reported as varying in phonetic realization from dialect to dialect, but are typically realized as pharyngealized consonants. In Ethiopian and Modern South Arabian languages, they are realized as ejective consonants. While these sounds do not necessarily share any particular phonetic properties in common, historically most derive from a common source.

Five such "emphatic" phonemes are reconstructed for Proto-Semitic:

* a dental plosive ṭ (=[t’]), see Teth
* an interdental fricative ṱ (=[θ’]), see Tsade, Ẓāʼ
* an alveolar fricative or affricate ṣ (=[(t)s’]), see Tsade
* a lateral fricative or affricate ṣ́ (=[(t)ɬ’]), see Tsade, Ḍād
* a velar or uvular plosive ḳ (=[k’]or [q’]), see Qoph

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