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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós). By surface analysis, emphase + -ique with -t- /t/ replacing -se /z/.
Pronunciation
Adjective
emphatique (plural emphatiques)
- (of a person's modes of expression)
- exaggerated (marked by exaggeration)
- Synonyms: démesuré, exagéré, immodéré
- inflated, pompous, pretentious, pedantic (marked by unnatural linguistic inflation meant to make what is communicated seem more intelligent)
- Synonyms: académique, apprêté, boursouflé, grandiloquent, pédantesque, pompeux, prétentieux, ronflant, sentencieux
- (phonetics, linguistics) emphatic (characterized by emphasis)
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