Definition of "emphatic" []

• Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic "no.” (adjective)
• Forceful and definite in expression or action. (adjective)
• Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way. (adjective)

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• "Only slighly less annoying—and a by product of using emphasis too often—is what I call the emphatic emphasis: emphasizing a sentence or phrase with, for example, italics, and then emphasizing again a word within the phrase with bold, underlining, or caps."
• "Young finally ended the competition in emphatic fashion."
• "The Celtics bounced back from back-to-back losses in emphatic fashion, beating the Sacramento Kings 108-63 Sunday night in one of the most one-sided wins in franchise history."