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▸ adjective: Stated with conviction.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
▸ adjective: (phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
▸ adjective: pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages
▸ adjective: ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages
▸ adjective: (phonology, archaic except in layman’s use) Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
▸ noun: (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
▸ noun: (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".
Similar:
forceful,
assertive,
stressed,
exclamatory,
emphasized,
emphatick,
emphatical,
vehement,
intensive,
strong-handed,
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