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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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