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1 —as in:
explicit instructions
Definition
clear and with enough detail so there is no confusion- She gave us explicit instructions.
explicit = precisely and clearly expressed
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We need to be more explicit so this will not be misunderstood.
- The terrorist Ayman Al-Zawahiri is [was] explicit about Al Qaeda's "right to kill four million Americans..."John R. Bolton -- American Justice and the International Criminal Court -- http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22883/pub_detail.asp (retrieved 06/29/06)
- In my admission letter from Duke it actually explicitly says that they won't take me if I get arrested.John Green -- Paper Towns
- I was not explicit enough with him before.Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
- There was no rule explicitly forbidding exercise at such an hour, but it was not expected; ordinarily therefore Mr. Ludsbury would have disapproved.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
- The lawyer never explicitly encouraged dishonesty, but he did make it clear that what I said would either increase or decrease the odds that Mom spent additional time in prison.J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy
- I think of myself as an obedient woman; up until this time I'd generally done the things told to me by Mother, or Mameha, or even Hatsumomo when I'd had no other choice; but I felt such a combination of anger at Mother and longing for Yasuda-san that I made up my mind right then to do the very thing Mother had ordered me most explicitly not to do.Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
- I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- André Vernet was a dear friend of Jacques, and Jacques trusted him explicitly.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
explicit = precise and clear
explicitly = clearly and specifically
explicit = clear
explicitly = clearly and specifically
explicitly = specifically (in exact words)
explicitly = clearly
explicit = clear
explicitly = without any doubts
2 —as in:
explicit photos and pornography
Definition
expressing or displaying sexual activity or violence in a detailed manner- The computer has a filter that blocks explicit photos and pornography.
explicit = expressing or displaying sexual activity or nudity in a manner that leaves little to the imagination
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The movie is rated "R" because of explicit sex scenes.
- Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Overly explicit. A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- He stood aloof, because he wished to avoid suggesting himself as a subject for the Squire's fatherly jokes in connection with matrimony and Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty, which were likely to become more and more explicit.George Eliot -- Silas Marner
explicit = expressing or displaying sexual activity or nudity in a manner that leaves little to the imagination
explicit = detailed sexual activity
explicit = expressing violence in a detailed manner
explicit = expressing sexual activity in a detailed manner