| 单词 | emphatic |
| 释义 | emphatic —emphatically, adv. —emphaticalness, n. /em fat"ik/, adj. 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. Gram. 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. Phonet. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic. n. 8. an emphatic consonant. [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] Syn. 3. positive, energetic, forcible, pronounced, decided, unequivocal, definite. Ant. 3. weak. |
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