EXPLICITLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does explicitly mean? 

• EXPLICITLY (adverb)
  The adverb EXPLICITLY has 1 sense:

1. in an explicit manner

  Familiarity information: EXPLICITLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXPLICITLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an explicit manner

Context example:

in his foreword Professor Clark puts it explicitly

Antonym:

implicitly (without ever expressing so clearly)

Pertainym:

explicit (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)

 Context examples 

The generic TNM concepts in the NCI Thesaurus are intended to explicitly reflect this lack of specification.

(Generic TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the motivation, cause or rationale that is explicitly NOT why an activity occurred.

(Non-Reason Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Send back your answer as fast as you can, and be careful to write explicitly.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A protocol complete instructions including appropriate indication, dosage, administration route, schedule, restrictions to use, and any other relevant data should be explicitly stated.

(Concomitant Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

However, this suppression does not necessarily mean that the anger directed at others is reduced or controlled, but rather that the triggers eliciting such angry reactions are concealed or not explicitly stated.

(Self-defeating humour promotes psychological well-being, University of Granada)

Equations are sometimes called more explicitly as conditional equations.

(Equation, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Crupp must have been a woman of penetration; for when this attachment was but a few weeks old, and I had not had the courage to write more explicitly even to Agnes, than that I had been to Mr. Spenlow's house, whose family, I added, “consists of one daughter”;—I say Mrs. Crupp must have been a woman of penetration, for, even in that early stage, she found it out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)