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Adjective: emphatic  em'fa-tik
  1. Powerful and clear in expression or effect
    "the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty";
    - forceful, emphatical [rare], forcible
     
  2. Spoken with emphasis
    "an emphatic word";
    - emphasized, emphasised [Brit], emphatical [rare]
     
  3. Sudden and strong
    "an emphatic no";
    - exclamatory, emphatical [rare]

See also: accented, assertive, forceful, self-asserting, self-assertive, stressed

Encyclopedia: Emphatic