Explicitly and Surprisingly

Explicitly

Explicitly adverb - In an explicit manner.

Surprisingly and explicitly are semantically related in specifically topic. In some cases you can use "Surprisingly" instead an adverb "Explicitly".

Nearby Words: explicit, explicate

Surprisingly

Surprisingly adverb - In a surprising manner.

Explicitly and surprisingly are semantically related in specifically topic. Sometimes you can use "Explicitly" instead an adverb "Surprisingly".

Nearby Words: surprise, surprising, surprised

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Surprisingly averted for Lizzie and Darcy, even though he explicitly asks her and she accepts (to avoid dancing with Mr Collins again).
  • Disney / Aladdin and the King of Thieves It also deals very explicitly with issues relating to organized crime, albeit of the ancient middle-eastern variety, but with surprisingly strong parallels to the modern western variety.
  • Stockholm Syndrome Played surprisingly seriously in one episode of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, where teen star actress Jennifer Nocturne is revealed to suffer from this (with Gwen Tennyson explicitly mentioning the trope).
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