emphatically

English

Etymology

From emphatic +‎ -ally.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈfætɪkli/

Adverb

emphatically (comparative more emphatically, superlative most emphatically)

1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:

     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.

   • 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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. (modal) Most definitely; truly.
   • 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, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:

     He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

3. (obsolete) Not really, but apparently.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     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

Translations

in an emphatic manner

• Catalan: emfàticament (ca)
• Dutch: nadrukkelijk (nl)
• Galician: enfaticamente (gl)
• Greek: κατηγορηματικά (el) (katigorimatiká), εμφατικά (el) (emfatiká)
• Ido: emfazoze
• Italian: enfaticamente (it), con forza, con decisione
• Portuguese: enfaticamente (pt)
• Spanish: enfáticamente (es)
• Swedish: eftertryckligt (sv)

Anagrams

• empathically