emphatic
adjective
uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
unemphatic
-
a word derived from
emphatic.
Example Sentences
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The New York Times found the film "a loose string of vignettes, presented at an unemphatic, page-flipping pace...and establishing Forrest as an accidental emblem of his times".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2022
But what became infuriating for me, as a child of immigrants myself, was their refusal to understand why so many are unemphatic towards them.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2020
In public, he was diffident, unemphatic, he would not play the game; he wouldn’t even make a rousing speech for his supporters.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018
The beat is steady and usually unemphatic; the song circles through three chords again and again.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
In answer to her unemphatic query Leon said, “It's just a letter.”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
