explicitly

Adverb

Meaning

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

expressly unambiguously right just clear topically completely particularly directly especially specifically strongly exactly straight clearly
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Antonyms

implicitly written virtually poorly badly indirectly
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Phrases with the word

explicitly prior explicitly before not explicitly

Examples

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. Lawrence M. Krauss

Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start. John Henry Holland

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. Alfred North Whitehead

Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself. Gustavo Gutiérrez

Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children. Paul Graham

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. Garth Nix

Close letter words and terms

explicitise explicitization explicitize explicitly before explicitly prior explicitness