1
: uttered with or marked by emphasis <an emphatic refusal>
2 : tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
3
: attracting special attention
4
: constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something
Adverb for emphatic
The teachers emphatic speech motivated her students to perform better in the class material.
In order for us to gain respect we must be emphatic about our demands and fight for what is right.
They were emphatically removed from the bar after refusing to leave a tip.
to experience someones trials and receive the reward without experiencing the situationfirsthand.
Knowing and Understanding the perfect love of Christ and receiving the Spirit and Mind of Him is the only way to obtain a feat of strengthknown as being empathetically sympathetic.
To have no empathy, originally to have no empathy with speeders.
Invented word by Deputy Frank, used in the popular "Fridays with Frank" - episodes in order to describe how much empathy he does or doesn't have with people (that are breaking the law, usually: Speeding).
Supposed first use: In a conversation with "Minivan Karen" on the side of the road in Pinal County, AZ
I understand that you're in a difficult transition in your life, so I am not totally empatheticless.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.