explicate
Syllables: ex·pli·cate/ˈɛk.spləˌkeɪt//ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/
explicate verb: to explain meticulously or in great detail.
Verb
explicate (third-person singular simple present explicates, present participle explicating, simple past and past participle explicated)
- 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 beg remedy & eaſe, ſupport and counſel, health and ſafety, deliverance &...1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Of Christian Religion”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC, section VII (Of Prayer), page 284
- Synonyms:
- analyze, elucidate, explicitate
Adjective
explicate (comparative more explicate, superlative most explicate)
- Evolved; unfolded.
explicate meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
explicate in Urdu
- ترقی دینا
explicate in Bengali
- বিস্তারিতভাবে ব্যাখ্যা, বিশ্লেষণ করা
explicate in Malayalam
- make explicit, explain, clarify
- സ്പഷ്ടീകരിക്കുക, വ്യക്തമാക്കുക, സ്പഷ്ടമാക്കുക, വിശദമാക്കുക, അഭിവൃഞ്ജിപ്പിക്കുക, വിശദീകരിക്കുക
Synonyms of explicate
Forms of explicate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | explicates |
| present participle | explicating |
| past participle | explicated |
| past | explicated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more explicate |
| superlative | most explicate |
Origin of explicate
Borrowed from Latin explicāre (“unfold, explain”).
Words formed from explicate
Questions about explicate
- What does explicate mean?
- Explicate means to explain meticulously or in great detail.
- What is explicate in Urdu?
- Explicate in Urdu is ترقی دینا. See Explicate meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is explicate?
- Explicate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce explicate?
- Explicate is pronounced /ˈɛk.splɪˌkeɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of explicate?
- The past tense of explicate is explicated.
Words near explicate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: explicate (page history and authors); explicate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); explicate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); explicate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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