Explicitly means stated openly and in so many words. Explicitly said, explicitly forbidden, explicitly stated.
It is the opposite of implicitly and does careful work in reporting, since saying something was explicitly stated means nobody has to infer it. In warnings about films it means shown in detail rather than suggested.
1adverbexplicitlyStated openly and in so many words.
“The contract explicitly says that pets are not allowed.”
explicitly is a manner.
Proto-Indo-European
*pleḱ-
Latin
explicitus — disentangled, easy
French
explicite
English
explicit
English, today
explicitly
From explicit + -ly. explicit French explicite, from Latin explicitus (“disentangled, easy”), variant of explicātus.
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