<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.</li><li>Using emphasis in speech or action.</li><li>Forceful; insistent: a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.</li><li>Very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking: the emphatic beauty of sunset.</li><li>Clearly or boldly outlined: It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.</li><li>Of or relating to a form used to add emphasis, especially in English, stressed auxiliary do in affirmative statements, as in He did call you or I do like it.</li><li>Phonetics: having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An emphatic consonant.</li></ul>