adj
Meaning 1
Evolved; unfolded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
explicate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/
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/ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt/ General American, weak vowel merger
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Australian: /ˈek.splɪˌkæɪt/
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verb
Meaning 2
To explain meticulously or in great detail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- My homework is to explicate a poem.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: analyze, elucidate, explicitate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: formulate, develop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
Narrower terms: mature, redevelop, reformulate
verb
Meaning 4
make plain and comprehensible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He explained the laws of physics to his students
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: explain
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inform
Narrower terms: rede, interpret, account for, naturalize, clarify, clear up, elucidate, comment
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: բացատրել (bacʻatrel) — explain meticulously
- Chinese Mandarin: 闡明 /阐明 (chǎnmíng) — explain meticulously
- Chinese Mandarin: 解釋 /解释 (jiěshì) — explain meticulously
- Chinese Mandarin: 辨明 (biànmíng) — explain meticulously
- Chinese Mandarin: 闡述 /阐述 (chǎnshù) — explain meticulously
- Czech: vysvětlit — explain meticulously
- Czech: objasnit — explain meticulously
- Czech: ozřejmit — explain meticulously
- Czech: interpretovat — explain meticulously
- Finnish: selittää — explain meticulously
- German: explizieren — explain meticulously
- German: haarklein erläutern — explain meticulously
- Hungarian: kifejt — explain meticulously
- Hungarian: megmagyaráz — explain meticulously
- Romanian: explica — explain meticulously
- Swedish: explicera — explain meticulously