emphatically

In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

Adverb

  1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
    • The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks.
    • 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,...
    • 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. - 2011 September 29, Jon...
  2. Most definitely; truly.
    • He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. - 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition,...
  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 - 1650, Thomas Browne,...

Origin

Etymology tree English emphatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English emphatically From emphatic + -ally.

Forms

more emphatically most emphatically