explicate

1. 1.

   make plain and comprehensible

   “He explained the laws of physics to his students”

   Synonymsexplain

   Broaderinform

   Narrowerredeaccount fornaturalizeclarifycomment
2. 2.

   elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

   “Could you develop the ideas in your thesis”

   Synonymsformulatedevelop

   Broaderspeculate

   Narrowermatureredevelop

Other forms of explicate

past tense

explicated·

present participle

explicating·

third person

explicates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about explicate

What does explicate mean?

explicate means "make plain and comprehensible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in explicate?

explicate has 3 syllables: ex-pli-cate. The stress falls on "ex". In IPA it is /ˈɛkspləˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for explicate?

Close synonyms include explain, formulate, develop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is explicate a common word?

explicate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with explicate?

34 words rhyme with explicate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.