explicate

To explain meticulously or in great detail.

Adjective

  1. Evolved; unfolded.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).

Forms

more explicate most explicate

Verb

  1. To explain meticulously or in great detail.
    • My homework is to explicate a poem.
    • It is an act of grace and higheſt honour that we duſt and aſhes are admitted to ſpeak to the Eternal God, to run to him as to a Father, to lay open our wants, to complain of our burdens, to explicate our ſcruples, to...
    • Alternatively, there is the possibility of an extended narration composed of events that are not (wholly) explicated but are, nevertheless, possible and may even have taken place. - 1969, Susan Sontag, “Persona”, in...

    Synonyms: analyze elucidate explicitate

Forms

explicates explicating explicated

Related

complicate explication explicative explicator explicit overelaborate

Derived

explicatable explicature misexplicate reexplicate unexplicated