Word Meanings - EXPLANATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory

Additional info about word: EXPLANATION

1. The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. 2. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation. 3. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; inerpretation; sense. Different explanations . Bp. Burnet. 4. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation. Syn. -- Definition; description; explication; exposition; interpretation; detail. See Definition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPLANATION)

• Annotation
• Explanation
• criticism
• remark
• note
• commentary
• elucidation
• observation
• comment
• Construction
• Composition
• fabrication
• explanation
• rendering
• erection
• fabric
• edifice
• reading
• understanding
• interpretation
• view
• Interpretation
• Version
• exposition
• definition
• sense
• solution
• Reason
• Ground
• account
• cause
• motive
• proof
• apology
• reasoning
• rationality
• right
• propriety
• justice
• order
• object
• sake
• purpose
• Solution
• Separation
• discerption
• disruption
• breach
• discontinuance
• disconnection
• disentanglement
• key
• answer
• resolution
• disintegration

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPLANATION)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Confound
• confuse
• obscure
• misinterpret
• misapprehend
• misconceive
• misrepresent
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to EXPLANATION)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• REMARKER
  One who remarks.
• MONSEL'S SOLUTION
  An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.