emphatic

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

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