🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
TOEFL BNC: 11264 COCA: 14058

emphatic

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
emphatic /ɪmˈfætɪk/ adjective
emphatic
/ɪmˈfætɪk/
adjective
Learner's definition of EMPHATIC
[more emphatic; most emphatic]
: said or done in a forceful or definite way有力的;确定的
: speaking or acting in a forceful way强调的;着重的

— emphatically

/ɪmˈfætɪkli/ adverb
TOEFL BNC: 11264 COCA: 14058

emphatic

adjective

em·​phat·​ic im-ˈfa-tik How to pronounce emphatic (audio)
em-
1
: uttered with or marked by emphasis
an emphatic refusal
2
: tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
3
: attracting special attention
4
: constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something
emphatically adverb

Example Sentences

They were emphatic about their political differences. the governor issued an emphatic denial of all charges
Recent Examples on the Web Secretly, Nick arranged a romantic beachside proposal which resulted in happy tears and an emphatic 'Yes!'. Matt Preis, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022 Friedman was emphatic: Companies that went down this road were not just well-meaning and misguided. Marc Sidwell, National Review, 13 Sep. 2022 Investing in relationships also has to be a critical leadership priority—the CDOs in the roundtable were emphatic on this point. Keith Ferrazzi, Forbes, 19 May 2022 Rather, their intervention is at its most emphatic, and most conspicuous, in the editing of the large body of interview footage (between fifty and sixty hours’ worth, according to Ophuls) into a taut, coherent narrative. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 Yet there was ample support for Biden's emphatic embrace of the voting rights cause. Richard Galant, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022 And scientists as well as government officials are generally emphatic that schools remain open for in-person learning. Joel Achenbach And Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2022 When Kunce speaks, his arm gestures are coiled, taut, emphatic. Bill Donahue, Washington Post, 20 June 2022 The second week in a row, and even more emphatic than the first. Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 2 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French & Late Latin; French emphatique "forcefully expressive," going back to Middle French, borrowed from Late Latin emphaticus, borrowed from Greek emphatikós "expressive, indicative," from empha-, stem in noun derivation of emphaínein "to exhibit, display, indicate" + -t-, verbal adjective formative + -ikos -ic entry 1 — more at emphasis

First Known Use

1602, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of emphatic was in 1602
TOEFL BNC: 11264 COCA: 14058
emphatic

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION VERBSbe強調ADVERBextremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常強調equally同等強調PREPOSITIONabout堅持⋯He was most emphatic about me leaving.他極力堅持要我離開。

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime