different between vicarious vs emphatic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vic?rius (“vicarious, substituted”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??k???i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /va??k?(?)?i.?s/, /v??k?(?)?i.?s/
• Rhymes: -??ri?s

Adjective

vicarious (not comparable)

1. Delegated.
2. Experienced or gained by taking in another person’s experience, rather than through first-hand experience, such as through watching or reading.
3. On behalf of others.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vicar
• vicariously

Translations

References

• vicarious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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