Emphatic vs Conclusive - What's the difference?
emphatic | conclusive | Related terms |
Characterized by emphasis.
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Stated with conviction.
belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to
(phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.
Pertaining to a conclusion
Providing an end to something; decisive.
Emphatic is a related term of conclusive.
As adjectives the difference between emphatic and conclusive
is that emphatic is characterized by emphasis while conclusive is pertaining to a conclusion.As a noun emphatic
is (phonology) an emphatic consonant.emphatic
English
Alternative forms
* emphatick (obsolete)Adjective
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- He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
Derived terms
* emphaticallySee also
* phaticAnagrams
*conclusive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The set of premises of a valid argument is conclusive in the sense that no further evidence could possibly be added to the set of premises which would make the argument invalid.