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emphatically en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ɪmˈfætɪkli/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English emphatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English emphatically From emphatic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
   • Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season. 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
   • The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.
   • Perhaps, at, another time, Ralph’s obstinacy and dislike would have been proof against any appeal from such a quarter, however emphatically urged; but now, after a moment’s hesitation, he went into the hall for his hat, and returning, got into the coach without speaking a word. 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
2. (modal) Most definitely; truly.
   • He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
3. (obsolete) Not really, but apparently.
   • I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expreſſed their velocity by incurvity 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (13)

ca emfàticament (in an emphatic manner) · el εμφατικά (in an emphatic manner) · pt enfaticamente (in an emphatic manner) · it con forza (in an emphatic manner) · io emfazoze (in an emphatic manner) · es enfáticamente (in an emphatic manner) · sv eftertryckligt (in an emphatic manner) · it con decisione (in an emphatic manner) · nl nadrukkelijk (in an emphatic manner) · it enfaticamente (in an emphatic manner) · eo emfaze (in an emphatic manner) · gl enfaticamente (in an emphatic manner) · el κατηγορηματικά (in an emphatic manner)