Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Usage example: the standard answer of “Fine, thank you” when asked, “How are you?”
Explanation is a synonym for answer in solution topic. In some cases you can use "Explanation" instead a noun "Answer", when it comes to topics like reply, response, effect, justification.
Explanation
Explanation noun - A statement that makes something clear.
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Synonyms for Explanation
Answer is a synonym for explanation in response topic. You can use "Answer" instead a noun "Explanation", if it concerns topics such as reason, effect, justification, affirmation.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- response and answer
- response and explanation
- account and answer
- account and explanation
- report and answer
- report and explanation
- reason and answer
- reason and explanation
- return and answer
- return and explanation
- result and answer
- result and explanation
- resolution and answer
- resolution and explanation
How words are described
| clear | clear answer | clear explanation |
| best | best answer | best explanation |
| long | long answer | long explanation |
| better | better answer | better explanation |
| Other adjectives: usual, common, short, true, reasonable, proper, likely, obvious, logical, actual, real, easy, vague, possible, final, plausible, official, different, concrete, simpler, simplest. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Rather than just give her the simple and incomplete answer, Bob prefaces a longer explanation with some variation on "yes and no" to let her know his response has to deal with the nuances of the situation at hand.
Source: Double-Edged Answer - Shauna from Bad Machinery had an older brother; the only explanation of his disappearance is, in an answer from John Allison to a question on Tumblr, "Chuck Cunninghamd"
- Occasionally this allows another character to lampshade the answer to the question with an even more roundabout explanation.
Source: Meta Guy
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