EMPHATICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emphatically mean? 

• EMPHATICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb EMPHATICALLY has 1 sense:

1. without question and beyond doubt

  Familiarity information: EMPHATICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPHATICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without question and beyond doubt

Synonyms:

by all odds; decidedly; definitely; emphatically; in spades; unquestionably

Context example:

by all odds they should win

Pertainym:

emphatic (forceful and definite in expression or action)

 Context examples 

Once, he declined something from the servant who interrupted and pestered at his shoulder, and he said, shortly and emphatically, "Pew!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“PRIVATE: for the hands of G. J. Utterson ALONE, and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,” so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over her rather too emphatically?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a sort of thing, cried Mrs. Elton emphatically, which I should not have thought myself privileged to inquire into.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“BEEN to the Study, my dear!” she returned emphatically.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This amiable spirit was felt at once, and both aunts 'my deared' her affectionately, looking what they afterward said emphatically, "That child improves every day."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who did call on him in her return through London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on every expression of the latter which, in her ladyship's apprehension, peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance; in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which she had refused to give.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So very emphatically and unexpectedly, that we were all three discomposed; until Tiffey came in with the bill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He answered emphatically but calmly—A female curate, who is not my wife, would never suit me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He shook his head emphatically.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)