emphatic

adj

1. Characterized by emphasis; forceful.

   “Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.”

2. Stated with conviction.

   “He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.”

3. Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
4. Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
5. Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
6. Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).

noun

1. An emphatic consonant.
2. A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as a lot or really.