Trenchant vs Emphatic - What's the difference?
trenchant | emphatic |
(obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
*1663 ,
*:The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
(figuratively) Keen]]; [[bite, biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe; as, trenchant wit.
*1899 ,
*:His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
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 trenchant and emphatic
is that trenchant is (obsolete) fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp while emphatic is characterized by emphasis.As a noun emphatic is
(phonology) an emphatic consonant.trenchant
English
Alternative forms
* trenchaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)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.