emphatically

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
24
Words With Friends
27
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ɪmˈfætɪkli/

Definition of emphatically

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
    “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.”
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adv

  1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
    “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.”
  2. (modal)Most definitely; truly.
    “He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.”
  3. (obsolete)Not really, but apparently.
    “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”

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Etymology

From emphatic + -ally.

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