explicitly

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English explicit

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English explicitly

From explicit + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

explicitly (comparative more explicitly, superlative most explicitly)

1. In an explicit manner.

   The fifth amendment to the United States constitution provides explicitly for the protection of private property.

   • 1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:

     Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.

Synonyms

• expressly, unambiguously; see also Thesaurus:explicitly

Antonyms

• implicitly

Translations

in an explicit manner

• Arabic: صَرَاحَةً (ṣarāḥatan)
• Belarusian: я́ўна (jáwna)
• Catalan: explícitament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 明確地 / 明确地 (zh) (míngquè de)

• Czech: výslovně, explicitně (cs)
• Danish: eksplicit (da), tydeligt, klart, med rene ord
• Dutch: uitdrukkelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: eksplicite
• Finnish: selvästi (fi), eksplisiittisesti (fi)
• French: explicitement (fr)
• Galician: explicitamente
• German: ausdrücklich (de)
• Greek: ρητά (el) (ritá), ρητώς (el) (ritós)
• Italian: esplicitamente (it)
• Japanese: 明確に (meikakuni), 明白に (meihakuni), 明らかに (akirakani)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: eksplisitt (no)

  Nynorsk: eksplisitt

• Occitan: explicitament
• Persian: صراحتاً (fa) (serâhatan), صریحاً (fa) (sarihan), به‌صراحت (be-serâhat), روی‌راست (rôy-e-râst)
• Polish: wyraźnie (pl)
• Portuguese: explicitamente
• Russian: я́вно (ru) (jávno)
• Scots: explicitly
• Spanish: explícitamente (es), rotundamente (es)
• Swedish: uttryckligen (sv)
• Tajik: рӯирост (rüyirost), сароҳатан (sarohatan), сареҳан (sarehan)
• Ukrainian: я́вно (uk) (jávno)

Scots

Etymology

From explicit (“explicit”) +‎ -ly (“-ly”).

Adverb

explicitly (comparative mair explicitly, superlative maist explicitly)

1. Explicitly.