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explicitly

[ik-splis-it]

adjective

fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal: explicit instructions; an explicit act of violence; explicit language.

clearly developed or formulated: explicit knowledge; explicit belief.

definite and unreserved in expression; outspoken: He was quite explicit as to what he expected us to do for him.

described or shown in realistic detail: explicit sexual scenes.

having sexual acts or nudity clearly depicted: explicit movies; explicit books.

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Mathematics. (of a function) having the dependent variable expressed directly in terms of the independent variables, as y = 3x + 4. Compare implicit (def. 4).

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Origin:
1605–15; < Latin explicitus unfolded, set forth, variant past participle of explicāre. See explicate

Related forms

ex·plic·it·ly, adverb

ex·plic·it·ness, noun

o·ver·ex·plic·it, adjective

qua·si-ex·plic·it, adjective

qua·si-ex·plic·it·ly, adverb

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su·per·ex·plic·it, adjective

su·per·ex·plic·it·ly, adverb

un·ex·plic·it, adjective

un·ex·plic·it·ly, adverb

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Can be confused: explicit, implicit, implied.

Synonyms
1. express, definite, precise, exact, unambiguous. 3. open, forthright, unabashed.

Antonyms
1. indefinite, ambiguous.

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Example Sentences

Much of it has been clearly determined and explicitly directed to this high aim.

But several justices offered spirited resistance to a more explicitly expansive.

And certainly one walks into dangerous territory when designing tax policies to explicitly redistribute wealth from rich to poor.

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Much of it has been clearly determined and explicitly directed to this high aim.

But several justices offered spirited resistance to a more explicitly expansive.

And certainly one walks into dangerous territory when designing tax policies to explicitly redistribute wealth from rich to poor.

Government policies explicitly promote health, well-being, and a balance between work and home life.

Money, on the other hand, is not optional: it's explicitly banned.

Their ads target only the data that users explicitly enter into their profiles.

Some colleges are already amending conduct-code policies to explicitly address social media.

Now, he says, it covers only risks that have been explicitly spelled out.

For a decade their user agreements have explicitly forbidden the use of the seeds for any independent research.

I'd have no problem had your reporter explicitly acknowledged that and framed her article in those terms.

The latest amendment explicitly states that there is no change to the legal working week.

None of which are explicitly creative, but they are things that get to creativity.

After the candidates shook hands, one member had explicitly mentioned the six-inch gap in height.

At the same time, they have become cagier about explicitly revealing in what ways they restrict service.

Her presence would often provoke me to romantic fantasies, as well others of a more explicitly interactive variety.

Ads that use a trademark but link to a page that promotes a competing product are explicitly prohibited.

But politicians have explicitly rejected that approach until the renewable industry matures.

Just asking people to think about or priming their prior knowledge without explicitly challenging it was not enough.

Ueshima never explicitly describes itself as a coffee shop for the elderly.

The last few lines explicitly state that this is a state of correlation only.

The first is how long the state will remain so explicitly involved in the industry.

Brooks explicitly claimed that the human sciences have yet to prove their worth.

Computers already attempt to do these things, but need to be explicitly programmed for them.

Members of the public are explicitly encouraged to attend.

There are several candidate definitions that people explicitly or implicitly use in books, papers or blog posts on the topic.

Apparently some of the people on this panel had been explicitly rejected from it in previous years.

Thompkins said that a suspect who wants the police to stop an interrogation must explicitly invoke the right to remain silent.

We wanted recognizable features, but without making it too explicitly human.

The private plans are explicitly allowed to negotiate even lower prices if they can.

Our tenure track faculty have been told explicitly that when going up for tenure it is not a comparative exercise.

Friedman explicitly excludes old-fashioned peacekeeping, which usually costs less.

The first is that the recent spasms of violence are striking in that the drug gangs are now explicitly threatening civilians.

And recruiting strategies and experimental design should be stated explicitly and fully in the resulting paper.

But the original text doesn't explicitly state the reasoning behind the regulation.

And it would surely deny that by explicitly permitting religious discrimination in hiring.

Now, whether to do it explicitly or subtle is up to you and is a good reason to contact you program officer.

The natives are not particularly restless about newcomers who come explicitly to work.

They should have mentioned explicitly how the observed productivity of women compared to the observed productivity of the men.

Almost all the videos in libraries are purchased under contracts that explicitly bar re-copying.

Back then, however, the banks were explicitly state-owned.

Linguistic conventions are implicitly or explicitly agreed on regularities in behavior shared by a linguistic community.

But these scholars are thematizing their stories in explicitly racial terms.

They explicitly seek to protect and educate workers rather than preserving existing jobs and factories.

Ideas that emerged included an undergraduate curriculum structured to explicitly prepare students for a global.

The draft auction rules surprised many in the industry by explicitly aiming to preserve four providers.

The psychology will inevitably be a significant problem for the acceptance of a therapy that explicitly does not aim for a cure.

Don't explicitly state any goals, objectives, or hypotheses in your grant proposal.

Enron's energy exchange was, however, explicitly exempted from oversight by financial regulators: that should be changed.

But when explicitly asked to verbally predict where the actor would look for the object, they answered correctly.

Explicitly agree that each member is responsible for getting what they need out of the meetings.

He thinks managers will start being measured explicitly on how well they keep their team.

Few books that are so explicitly critical of serving leaders.

It may be more compactly and allusively but less explicitly put.

Don't let them convince you, either explicitly or implicitly to keep silent.

But then, none of that was explicitly stated in the article.

The comments posted so far do not explicitly discuss academic freedom, which to me would be the central issue.

The problem is that this context is usually implicit, and not itself explicitly identified.

They are a background that does not need to be explicitly questioned.

The commission's mandate was sweeping and it explicitly included the intelligence agencies.

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World English Dictionary

explicit¹ (ɪkˈsplɪsɪt)

—*adj*
1.	precisely and clearly expressed, leaving nothing to implication; fully stated: explicit instructions
2.	graphically detailed, leaving little to the imagination: sexually explicit scenes
3.	openly expressed without reservations; unreserved
4.	maths Compare implicit (of a function) having an equation of the form y=f(x), in which y is expressed directly in terms of x, as in y=x⁴ + x + z

[C17: from Latin explicitus unfolded, from explicāre; see explicate]

ex'plicitly¹

—*adv*

ex'plicitness¹

—n

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Word Origin & History

explicit

c.1600, from Fr. explicite, from L. explicitus, variant pp. of explicare "unfold, unravel, explain," from ex- "out" + plicare "to fold" see ply (v.)). "Explicitus" was written at the end of medieval books, originally short for explicitus est liber "the book is unrolled." As

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a euphemism for "pornographic" it dates from 1971.

explicitly

1630s, from explicit + -ly (2). Opposed to implicitly.

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"All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous."

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