Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪmˈfætɪkli/
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ɛmˈfætɪkli
Adverb
In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
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The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.
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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.
Most definitely; truly.
Usage- modal
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He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
Not really, but apparently.
Usage- Obsolete
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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
Adverb
without question and beyond doubt
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it was decidedly too expensive
she told him off in spades
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by all odds they should win