emphatic

Questions about emphatic

What does emphatic mean?

emphatic means "spoken with emphasis". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emphatic?

emphatic has 3 syllables: em-phat-ic. The stress falls on "phat". In IPA it is /ɛmˈfætɪk/.

What is another word for emphatic?

Close synonyms include emphasized, emphasised, exclamatory, forceful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emphatic a common word?

emphatic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with emphatic?

1 word rhymes with emphatic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.