Urgent vs Emphatic - What's the difference?
urgent | emphatic |
Requiring immediate attention.
Characterized by emphasis.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 28
, author=Jamie Jackson
, title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal
, work=the Guardian
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 urgent and emphatic
is that urgent is requiring immediate attention while emphatic is characterized by emphasis.As a noun emphatic is
(phonology) an emphatic consonant.urgent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
Synonyms
* pressing * needlyDerived terms
* urgently * urgencyAnagrams
* ----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.