Clearly
Clearly adverb - Without any question.
Explicitly is a synonym for clearly in distinctly topic. In some cases you can use "Explicitly" instead an adverb "Clearly", when it comes to topics like obviously.
Explicitly
Explicitly adverb - In an explicit manner.
Clearly is a synonym for explicitly in definitely topic. You can use "Clearly" instead an adverb "Explicitly", if it concerns topics such as certainly, expressly, distinctly, obviously.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- precisely and clearly
- precisely and explicitly
- absolutely and clearly
- absolutely and explicitly
- positively and clearly
- positively and explicitly
- definitely and clearly
- definitely and explicitly
- plainly and clearly
- plainly and explicitly
- exactly and clearly
- exactly and explicitly
- certainly and clearly
- certainly and explicitly
Both words in one sentence
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Later, when Hooded Justice and Nelson Gardner have sex, it's clearly and explicitly not what Nelly wanted, and he looks terrified.
Source: Comic Book / Before Watchmen -
Characters should only be categorized under them when their alignments are clearly and explicitly stated in canon.
Source: Character Alignment -
This is a world where Santa is so clearly and explicitly real that when he tells the town's mayor he won't come here this year due to the athe-mouse insulting him in a newspaper (yes...) the mayor attempts to build a huge beacon to tell Santa how much they're really, really sorry.
Source: Flat-Earth Atheist
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