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unemphatic

/em-fat-ik/US // ɛmˈfæt ɪk //UK // (ɪmˈfætɪk) //

不言而喻,不言不语,不言而喻的,不含糊的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
    • : using emphasis in speech or action.
    • : forceful; insistent: a big, emphatic man; I must be emphatic about this particular.
    • : very impressive or significant; strongly marked; striking: the emphatic beauty of sunset.
    • : clearly or boldly outlined: It stands, like a great, stone dagger, emphatic against the sky.
    • : Grammar. 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.
    • : Phonetics. having a secondary velar articulation, as certain dental consonants in Arabic.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an emphatic consonant.

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Examples

  • For the British grassroots initiative RunEqual, the answer to that question is an emphatic “yes.”

  • Louis Vuitton’s Fall 2021 menswear show was an emphatic note to self.

  • From Miami to Manhattan, hospital leaders and public officials have been equally emphatic.

  • In expressing emphatic support for the protests, the West meanwhile ignores Beijing’s hard-wired national security fears over Hong Kong.

  • Hanging over the process is the fact that Netanyahu's emphatic rejection of any deal in 2015 effectively sidelined Israel as Barack Obama sealed the previous deal.

  • The adjudication of the Daily Beast office was clear and emphatic: penguin, penguin, penguin.

  • The CDC too, has been emphatic in their promotion of the technique.

  • At the 92Y talk, de la Renta was emphatic about the future of his label.

  • It is a creepy sound, inhumanly high-pitched and strangely clipped and emphatic: “S-s-eeg maheevoh s-s-speeree.”

  • With a commanding voice and an emphatic, Emeril-esque “WOW!”

  • He sang the words with an odd, emphatic slowness, turning to look at Lettice between the phrases.

  • The merest acquaintance would have said something more emphatic than "I will, thank you; good-by," to such a request.

  • He had the military trick of putting an emphatic order in the fewest and simplest words.

  • She had once been almost as emphatic in expressing herself upon the subject as the corner grocer.

  • The emphatic al places the alchemist as much above the ordinary chemist as the gold which he obtains is superior to other metals.