SINCE 1828
emphatical
adjective
em·phat·i·cal
| \ |ə̇kəl, |ēk-\
archaic variant of emphatic
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
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