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emphatically

/ɪmˈfætɪkli/

emphatically adverb: in an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

Adverb

emphatically (comparative more emphatically, superlative most emphatically)

  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.1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  2. (modal) Most definitely; truly.
    • He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
  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 incurvity1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

emphatically meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

emphatically in Urdu

تاکیداً

emphatically in Malayalam

ഉറപ്പിച്ച്, ഊന്നി, മനസ്സിൽ പതിയത്തക്കവണ്ണം

Forms of emphatically

comparativemore emphatically
superlativemost emphatically

Origin of emphatically

From emphatic + -ally.

Questions about emphatically

What does emphatically mean?
Emphatically means in an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
What is emphatically in Urdu?
Emphatically in Urdu is تاکیداً. See Emphatically meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is emphatically?
Emphatically is an adverb.
How do you pronounce emphatically?
Emphatically is pronounced /ɪmˈfætɪkli/.

Words near emphatically in the dictionary

  1. emphatic pronoun
  2. emphatic pronouns
  3. emphatic state
  4. emphatical
  5. emphaticall
  6. emphatically
  7. emphaticalness
  8. emphaticise
  9. emphaticised
  10. emphaticises
  11. emphaticising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emphatically (page history and authors); emphatically (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emphatically (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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