Word Meanings - EXPLAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear

Additional info about word: EXPLAIN

out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope. Syn. -- To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPLAIN)

• Account Deem
• esteem
• consider
• regard
• hold
• judge
• rate
• estimate
• value
• reckon
• explain
• solve
• Comment Note
• observe
• interpret
• illustrate
• expound
• dilate
• expatiate
• criticise
• Decipher
• Bead
• spell
• unravel
• unfold
• Define
• Mark out
• limit
• designate
• specify
• eliminate
• elucidate
• fix
• settle
• determine
• bound
• Describe
• Draw
• delineate
• portray
• define
• picture
• depict
• represent
• relate
• narrate
• recount

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPLAIN)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misestimate
• misjudge
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to EXPLAIN)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.