emphatically

English

Etymology

emphatic +‎ -ally

Adverb

emphatically (comparative more emphatically, superlative most emphatically)

1. In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
   • Macaulay

     He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.

   • 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. (obsolete) Not really, but apparently.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

Translations

in an emphatic manner

• Catalan: emfàticament (ca)
• Dutch: nadrukkelijk (nl)
• Greek: κατηγορηματικά (el) (katigorimatiká)

• Portuguese: enfaticamente (pt)
• Spanish: enfáticamente (es)
• Swedish: eftertryckligt (sv)

Anagrams

• empathically