explicitly
advEtymology From explicit + -ly.
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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.1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62:
- Synonyms
- expressly, unambiguously, clearly, directly, downrightly, explicitly, expressis verbis, patently, plainly, specifically, unequivocally, univocally
- Antonyms
- implicitly, ambiguously, equivocally, vaguely
- Hypernyms
- distinctly, obviously, overtly
- Hyponyms
- definitively