emphatically
/ɪmˈfætɪkli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Most definitely; truly.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "He was indeed emphatically a popular writer."
- "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"
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.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more emphatically (comparative)
most emphatically (superlative)