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Definition of emphatic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

emphatic

adjective
 
/ɪmˈfætɪk/
 
/ɪmˈfætɪk/
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  1. an emphatic statement, answer, etc. is given with force to show that it is important
    • an emphatic denial/rejection
  2. (of a person) making it very clear what you mean by speaking with force
    • He was emphatic that he could not work with her.
    • She was equally emphatic about the importance of discipline.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    preposition
    • about
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  3. an emphatic victory, win, or defeat is one in which one team or player wins by a large amount
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
    4. Word Originearly 18th cent.: via late Latin from Greek emphatikos, from emphasis originally ‘appearance, show’, later denoting a figure of speech in which more is implied than is said (the original sense in English), from emphainein ‘exhibit’, from em- ‘in, within’ + phainein ‘to show’.
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