Main Entry: em·phat·ic

Pronunciation: \im-ˈfa-tik, em-\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Greek emphatikos, from emphainein

Date: 1635

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

— em·phat·i·cal·ly \-ˈfa-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb