emphatic
- Adjective. Characterized by emphasis.
- Adjective. Stated with conviction.
- Adjective. belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
- Adjective. (phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.
- Noun. (phonology) an emphatic consonant.
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