different between persuasive vs emphatic

English

Etymology

From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persu?s?vus, from Latin past participle stem of persu?d?re + -?vus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?(?)?swe?s?v/

Adjective

persuasive (comparative more persuasive, superlative most persuasive)

1. able to persuade; convincing

Derived terms

• counterpersuasive

Translations

Noun

persuasive (plural persuasives)

1. That which persuades; incitement.
   • 1839, George Robert Gleig, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary: Visited in 1837 (volume 1, page 68)

     He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.s?a.ziv/

Adjective

persuasive

1. feminine singular of persuasif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

persuasive

1. inflection of persuasiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

persuasive

1. feminine plural of persuasivo

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