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In some senses, emphatically is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
emphatically
/ɪmˈfætɪkli/
adv 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
against, popular, stated
VERB + EMPHATICALLY
barking, claim, clamored, cross, declared, needs
EMPHATICALLY + NOUN
home, nuclear, status, writer
PREP.
in
ADV.
also, indeed
Definitions
adv
1
In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
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.
2
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
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adverb — without question and beyond doubt
- decidedly
- unquestionably
- definitely
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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 th
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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.
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He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
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But this claim is emphatically not the one that Dennett is making.
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They clamored emphatically against the nuclear tests.
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Tom stated emphatically that he didn't do that.
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