What does emphatic mean?
Emphatic means Characterized by emphasis; forceful..
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/ɛmˈfætɪk/ · adjective
Characterized by emphasis; forceful..
Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
Use emphatic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Emphatic means Characterized by emphasis; forceful..
Common synonyms include distinct, assertive, forceful, stressed.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
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