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Urgently vs Emphatically - What's the difference?

urgently | emphatically |

As adverbs the difference between urgently and emphatically

is that urgently is with great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important while emphatically is in an emphatic manner; with emphasis.

urgently

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
    • We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.
    Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.
  • Continuously. With insistence.
    • He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

    Synonyms

    * (great haste), imperatively, pressingly * (continuously), persistently, persuasively

    Antonyms

    * apathetically * half-heartedly

    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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