Adjective: emphatic em'fa-tik
- Powerful and clear in expression or effect
"the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty";
- forceful, emphatical [rare], forcible
- Spoken with emphasis
"an emphatic word";
- emphasized, emphasised [Brit], emphatical [rare]
- Sudden and strong
"an emphatic no";
- exclamatory, emphatical [rare]
See also: accented, assertive, forceful, self-asserting, self-assertive, stressed
Encyclopedia: Emphatic