Emphatic vs Tolerant - What's the difference?
emphatic | tolerant |
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.
tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
tending to withstand or survive
As adjectives the difference between emphatic and tolerant
is that emphatic is characterized by emphasis while tolerant is tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.As a noun emphatic
is an emphatic consonant.emphatic
English
Alternative forms
* emphatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.}}
- He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
Derived terms
* emphaticallySee also
* phaticAnagrams
*tolerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
- These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.