in detail

Adverb

Meaning

thoroughly (including all important particulars)

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Synonyms

fully particularly closely exactly specifically extensively carefully thoroughly intensively conscientiously minutely precisely at length comprehensively meticulously
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Antonyms

roughly briefly loosely improperly summarily carelessly
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Examples

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. Alfred North Whitehead

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. Jürgen Habermas

Euclid's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking the argument in detail but far from being perfect for making understandable the main line of the argument. George Pólya

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire. Franz Kafka

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. George Orwell

Close letter words and terms

in dern in desperation in despite of in detention in detroit in development