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Emphatically vs Explicitly - What's the difference?

emphatically | explicitly |

As adverbs the difference between emphatically and explicitly

is that emphatically is in an emphatic manner; with emphasis while explicitly is in an explicit manner.

emphatically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.
  • * Macaulay
    • He was indeed emphatically a popular writer.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season.}}
  • (obsolete) Not really, but apparently.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

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    explicitly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an explicit manner.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * implicitly