Emphatic. Significant, expressive, strong, forcible, positive, energetic, decided, distinct, unequivocal, earnest, important, special.

Ant. Mild, ordinary, usual, unimportant, commonplace, unnoticeable, cool, unimpassioned, undemonstrative.

Empire. Dominion, supremacy, sovereignty, authority, government, command, control, sway, rule, kingdom.

Ant. Independence, insurrection, anarchy, mutiny, sedition, uprising.

Empiric, Empirical. Tentative, experimental, provisional, hypothetic, experiential; quackish.

Ant. Regular, scientific, uniform, constant, inductive, categorical.

Employ. Engage, call, hire, use, engross, busy, exercise; apply, enlist, entrust, occupy, economize.

Ant. Discard, dismiss, misuse.

Employment. Business, vocation, pursuit, calling, profession, craft, trade, occupation; service, agency, office, employ; application, engrossment.

Ant. Leisure, laziness, indolence; recreation, vacation.