Definitions for explicit

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explicit ex·plic·it

Spelling: [ik-splis-it]

IPA: /ɪkˈsplɪs ɪt/

Explicit is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 144 anagrams from letters in explicit (ceiilptx).

Definitions for explicit

adjective

1. fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal:
2. clearly developed or formulated:
3. definite and unreserved in expression; outspoken:
4. described or shown in realistic detail:
5. having sexual acts or nudity clearly depicted:
6. Mathematics. (of a function) having the dependent variable expressed directly in terms of the independent variables, as y = 3 x + 4. Compare implicit (def 4).

Origin of explicit

1605-15; Latin explicitus unfolded, set forth, variant past participle of explicāre. See explicate

Examples for explicit

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.

The marshal's orders were explicit: they must be across the Meuse that night, cost what it might.

I will be explicit; I will use the indicative mood, present tense.

And he offered no explicit reminder that the NYPD had been saving thousands of black lives, along with many others.

Instead, everyone agrees it has simply reinscribed too big to fail as explicit law.

I am afraid I shall be abrupt, but it is necessary to be explicit.

I could not comprehend his meaning, and therefore requested that he would be explicit.

Rowling is careful, explicit even, to note that this woman was not “the real Dolores Umbridge.”

More than 20 million people tuned in to a broadcast network drama and saw two gay men have explicit sex.

The political officer was firm, and his terms were explicit.