explicit

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication
adjective in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term

Borrowed from French explicite, from Latin explicitus (“disentangled, easy”), variant of explicātus.

All was clear, expeditious, explicit. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
You'll have to be more explicit." — The Girl Philippa, Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
To be explicit, he eats the realists. — Thuvia, maid of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

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