different between moving vs emphatic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?v??/
• Rhymes: -u?v??
• Hyphenation: mov?ing

Adjective

moving (comparative more moving, superlative most moving)

1. (not comparable) That moves or move.

   moving pictures

2. That causes someone to feel emotion.
   • 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse

     't was a moving letter, very moving!

Antonyms

• (moving object): stationary

Translations

Verb

moving

1. present participle of move

Noun

moving (countable and uncountable, plural movings)

1. (uncountable) The relocation of goods
2. (countable) A causing of a movement

   The rats' movings are willed movements.

Wikibooks

Derived terms

• earth moving

English

Alternative forms

• emphatick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ??????? (emphaín?, “I show, present”), from ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (phaín?, “I shine, show”); related to ??????? (émphasis) and English emphasis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?fæt?k/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?m?fæt?k/
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

emphatic (comparative more emphatic, superlative most emphatic)

1. Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
2. Stated with conviction.

   He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.

3. (grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.
4. (phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Semitic languages that are distinguished from both voiced and voiceless consonants by a certain phonetic feature or features.
   1. pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, and other Northwest Semitic languages
   2. ejectives in Ge'ez, Amharic, and other Ethiopic Semitic languages

Derived terms

• emphatically

Related terms

• emphasis
• emphasise, emphasize

Translations

Noun

emphatic (plural emphatics)

1. (phonology) An emphatic consonant.
2. (linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".

See also

• phatic

Anagrams

• empathic