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Emphatic

Adjective

Definitionen

1.AdjectiveCharacterized by emphasis; forceful.
2.AdjectiveStated with conviction.
"He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out."
3.AdjectiveBelonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
4.AdjectiveBelonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
5.AdjectivePhrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
6.AdjectiveEjective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
7.AdjectiveReferring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
8.NounAn emphatic consonant.
9.NounA word or phrase adding emphasis, such as a lot or really.
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