- uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
- using emphasis in speech or action.
- forceful; insistent: a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.
- very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking: the emphatic beauty of sunset.
- clearly or boldly outlined: It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.
- of or relating to a form used to add emphasis, especially, in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.
- having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.
- an emphatic consonant.
- expressed, spoken, or done with emphasis
- forceful and positive; definite; direct
- sharp or clear in form, contour, or outline
- important or significant; stressed
- denoting certain dental consonants of Arabic that are pronounced with accompanying pharyngeal constriction
- an emphatic consonant, as used in Arabic
