Emphatic vs Impassioned - What's the difference?
emphatic | impassioned | 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.
Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
*:She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […].
*1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , VI:
*:The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.
Emphatic is a related term of impassioned.
As adjectives the difference between emphatic and impassioned
is that emphatic is characterized by emphasis while impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.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.