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Emphatic vs Unmistakable - What's the difference?

emphatic | unmistakable | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between emphatic and unmistakable

is that emphatic is characterized by emphasis while unmistakable is unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

As a noun emphatic

is an emphatic consonant.

emphatic

English

Alternative forms

* emphatick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Characterized by emphasis.
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  • Stated with conviction.
    • He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
  • belonging to set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to
  • (phonology) of obstruent consonants in Semitic languages.

    • Derived terms

    * emphatically

    Related terms

    * emphasis * emphasise, emphasize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonology) an emphatic consonant

    • See also

    * phatic

    Anagrams

    *

    unmistakable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
    • Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable .