Explicate [verb]

Definition of Explicate:

clarify, expand

Synonyms of Explicate:

● Expound

● Elucidate

● Amplify

● Untangle

● Develop

● Dilate

● Expatiate

● Explain

● Unfold

● Demonstrate

● Construe

● Interpret

● Illustrate

● Clear up

● Run down

● Spell out

● Work out

● Enucleate

● Enlarge upon

● Give the big picture

● Make clear

● Make explicit

● Make plain

● Tell why


Opposite/Antonyms of Explicate:

● Cloud

● Confuse

● Stop

● Tangle

● Mystify

● Complicate

● Hide

● Conceal

● Obscure

● Lessen

● Compress


Sentence/Example of Explicate:

Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.

An attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties are.

We have merely to explicate the idea of intelligent spirit possessing being in its plenitude.

But Marie say there is the miss understand in our letters she cannot explicate.

Whether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.

This battle of Girondins and Mountain let no man ask history to explicate.

The first, if we could pursue it, would explicate the enigma at once.