emphatically Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb without question and beyond doubt
    decidedly; in spades; unquestionably; by all odds; definitely.
    • it was decidedly too expensive
    • she told him off in spades
    • by all odds they should win

WordNet


Em*phat"ic*al*ly adverb
Definitions
  1. With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently.
    He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.
  2. Not really, but apparently. Obs. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913