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emphatically

adv
/ɪmˈfætɪkli/

Etymology

From emphatic + -ally.

  1. derived from ἐμφατικός
  2. suffixed as emphatically — “emphatic + ally”

Definitions

  1. In an emphatic manner

    In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

    • The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.
    • 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. Most definitely

    Most definitely; truly.

    • He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

  3. 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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emphatically. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emphatically. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at emphatically

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA