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| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | annotation, answer, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, explanation, exposition, fixing, gloss, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendition, representation, solution, terminology, translation, analogue, characterization, delimitation, exemplification, explication, expounding, formalization, individuation, rendering, settling, signification, statement of meaning |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | annotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanatory note |
| Synonyms: | comment, commentary, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, footnote, gloss, glossary, illustration, interpretation, note, observation, explication |
| Antonyms: | blank |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, brightness, certainty, definition, distinctness, evidence, exactness, lucidity, precision, prominence, purity, simplicity, transparency, articulateness, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, directness, exactitude, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, salience, tangibility, unambiguity, unmistakability |
| Antonyms: | obscurity, dirtiness, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | denotation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explicit meaning |
| Synonyms: | definition, implication, indication, meaning, signification |
| Notes: | a word's denotation is its reference to the things it designates, its direct, explicit meaning; a word's connotation is things or attributes that the word brings to mind, any idea or notion suggested or associated with the word |
| Main Entry: | explanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clarification; reason |
| Synonyms: | account, annotation, answer, breakdown, brief, cause, comment, commentary, confession, definition, demonstration, description, details, display, elucidation, evidence, example, excuse, exposition, expression, gloss, history, illustration, information, interpretation, justification, meaning, mitigation, motive, narration, note, recital, rendition, report, resolution, sense, showing, significance, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, talking, telling, vindication, writing, explication |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | limitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restraint, disadvantage |
| Synonyms: | bar, block, check, condition, constraint, control, cramp, curb, definition, drawback, impediment, inhibition, injunction, modification, obstruction, qualification, reservation, restriction, snag, stint, stricture, taboo, circumspection |
| Antonyms: | advantage, extent, freedom, infinity, range, release |
| Main Entry: | elucidation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illustration |
| Synonyms: | clarification, commentary, definition, explanation |
| Main Entry: | semantics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | connotation, definition, denotation, explanation, exposition, interpretation, semiotics, symbolism, exegetics, explication, glossology, semiology, significs, symbiology |
| Main Entry: | description |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | brief, chronicle, confession, declaration, definition, delineation, depiction, detail, explanation, fingerprint, information, make, monograph, narration, narrative, picture, portrayal, recital, recitation, record, rehearsal, report, representation, rundown, sketch, specification, statement, story, summary, tale, version, vignette, yarn, ABCs, blow by blow, characterization, explication, portraiture, presentment, recountal, summarization, writeup |
| Antonyms: | misrepresentation |
| Main Entry: | expression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | verbalization |
| Synonyms: | announcement, argument, articulation, assertion, commentary, communication, declaration, definition, delivery, diction, elucidation, emphasis, execution, explanation, exposition, idiom, interpretation, intonation, issue, language, locution, mention, narration, phrase, phraseology, pronouncement, remark, rendition, speaking, speech, statement, style, term, utterance, vent, voice, word, writ, asseveration, choice of words, enunciation, formulation, phrasing, set phrase, turn of phrase, voicing |
| Main Entry: | meaning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message, signification |
| Synonyms: | allusion, bearing, bottom line*, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist, heart*, hint, implication, import, interpretation, intimation, meat, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nuance, nuts and bolts*, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, spirit, stuff, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth, acceptation, nature of beast, symbolization |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, definition, exegesis, exposé, exposition, inference, interpretation, reading, rendition, translation, version, construal, explication, rendering |
| Main Entry: | note/notes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | agenda, annotation, calendar, comment, commentary, definition, diary, dispatch, entry, epistle, gloss, inscription, journal, letter, line, mark, memorandum, message, minute, missive, observation, record, remark, reminder, scratch, scrawl, scribble, summary, word, datum, jotting, marginalia, memo, obiter dictum, thank-you |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point, meaning |
| Synonyms: | advantage, bottom line*, burden, core, definition, drift, gist, good, heart, implication, import, interpretation, logic, matter, meat*, meat and potatoes*, message, name of the game*, nitty-gritty*, nuance, nub, nuts and bolts*, punch line*, purport, purpose, reason, short, significance, stuff, substance, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth, acceptation, denotatiton, intendment, nature of the beast, significancy, signification |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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