Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EM-PHAT'IC, or EM-PHAT'IC-AL, a.

1. Forcible; strong; impressive; as, an emphatic voice, tone or pronunciation; emphatical reasoning.
2. Requiring emphasis; as, an emphatical word.
3. Uttered with emphasis. We remonstrated in emphatical terms.
4. Striking to the eye; as, emphatic colors. Boyle.