Emphatic



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 重视的, 强调的
• ［英］ adj. 重视的, 强调的 ( showing or using emphasis)
• ［例］ an emphatic denial

Webster Collegiate

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
• ? emphatically adverb

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