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What does emphatic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word emphatic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
  2. Stated with conviction.
  3. (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
  4. (phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Semitic languages that are distinguished from both voiced and voiceless consonants by a certain phonetic feature or features.
Noun
  1. (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
  2. (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".
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