explicitly
formal
Forms
- Comparative
- more explicitly
- Superlative
- most explicitly
Definitions
1.In an explicit manner.
- The fifth amendment to the United States constitution provides explicitly for the protection of private property.
- Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4832
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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English explicit
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English explicitly
From explicit + -ly.