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emphatic

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Adjective

  1. Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
  2. Stated with conviction.
  3. Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
  4. Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation: Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
  5. Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation: Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
  6. Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).

Noun

  1. An emphatic consonant.
  2. A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as a lot or really.

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