uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.

using emphasis in speech or action.

forceful; insistent

a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.

very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking

the emphatic beauty of sunset.

clearly or boldly outlined

It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.

Grammar . of or pertaining to a form used to add emphasis, esp., in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.

Phonetics . having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.

an emphatic consonant.

adverb

indecisively , hesitantly , indistinctly

adverb

certainly , of course , undoubtedly , decidedly , assuredly , with decision , decisively , absolutely , entirely , unequivocally , flatly , distinctly , flat , positively