Efficient vs Emphatic - What's the difference?
efficient | emphatic |
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
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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.
As adjectives the difference between efficient and emphatic
is that efficient is efficient while emphatic is characterized by emphasis.As a noun emphatic is
(phonology) an emphatic consonant.efficient
English
Adjective
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- The efficient cause is the working cause.
Antonyms
* inefficientDerived terms
* efficient cause * subefficientReferences
emphatic
English
Alternative forms
* emphatick (obsolete)Adjective
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- He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.