emphatically /ɪmˈfætɪkli/ adverb3 •In an emphatic manner; with emphasis.The leaders feel emphatically that each side must prove good faith before they'll will resume their talks. •Most definitely; truly.He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. — 1856 •(no longer used) Not really, but apparently.I must be taken neither really nor emphatically , but only emblematically: for being the Hierogliphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity — 1650 formsmore emphatically · most emphatically