en explain

An English term in ConceptNet 5.8

Sources: Open Mind Common Sense contributors, Verbosity players, German Wiktionary, English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary, and Open Multilingual WordNet
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Synonyms

  • ar أَوْضَحَ (v, communication) ➜
  • ar شَرَحَ (v, communication) ➜
  • ar وَضَّحَ (v, communication) ➜
  • ca explicar (v, communication) ➜
  • da forklare (v, communication) ➜
  • sh objasniti ➜
  • en excuse (v, communication) ➜
  • en explicate (v, communication) ➜
  • es explicar (v, communication) ➜
  • eu argitu (v, communication) ➜
  • eu azaldu (v, communication) ➜
  • eu esplikatu (v, communication) ➜
  • fa توضیح دادن (v, communication) ➜
  • fa روشن کردن (v, communication) ➜
  • fa شرح دادن (v, communication) ➜
  • fi selittää (v, communication) ➜
  • fi selvittää (v, communication) ➜
  • fr expliquer (v) ➜
  • fr expliquer (v, communication) ➜
  • id hampar (v, communication) ➜
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Related terms

  • en describe ➜
  • en tell ➜
  • en describe ➜
  • en explanation (n) ➜
  • sh izložiti (v) ➜
  • sh objasniti (v) ➜
  • sh objašnjavati (v) ➜
  • sh obrazlagati (v) ➜
  • sh obrazložiti (v) ➜
  • sh razložiti (v) ➜
  • sh tumačiti (v) ➜
  • af verklaar (v) ➜
  • ang gereccan (v) ➜
  • ang geswutelian (v) ➜
  • ang reccan (v) ➜
  • ang rædan (v) ➜
  • ang trahtian (v) ➜
  • ar أول (v) ➜
  • ar بين (v) ➜
  • ar شرح (v) ➜
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Derived terms

  • en blacksplain ➜
  • en dexify ➜
  • en explain away ➜
  • en explainability ➜
  • en explainable ➜
  • en explainee ➜
  • en explainer ➜
  • en explain (v) ➜
  • en explainest ➜
  • en explaineth ➜
  • en femsplain ➜
  • en mansplain ➜
  • en mansplain ➜
  • en misexplain ➜
  • en overexplain ➜
  • en please explain ➜
  • en re explain ➜
  • en splain ➜
  • en underexplain ➜
  • en womansplain ➜

Ways of explain

  • en account for (v, communication) ➜
  • en clarify (v, communication) ➜
  • en comment (v, communication) ➜
  • en interpret (v, communication) ➜
  • en naturalize (v, communication) ➜

Word forms

  • en explain'd (v) ➜
  • en explained (v) ➜
  • en explainest (v) ➜
  • en explaineth (v) ➜
  • en explaining (v) ➜
  • en explains (v) ➜

Subevents of explain

  • en illustrating a point ➜
  • en giving a clue ➜
  • en serve justice ➜

explain is a way of…

  • en inform (v, communication) ➜
  • en state (v, communication) ➜

Things capable of explain

  • en Please, if you ➜
  • en a teacher ➜
  • en Who ➜

Things used for explain

  • en an example ➜
  • en a statement ➜
  • en writing a story ➜

Etymologically related

  • en esplanade ➜
  • ang areccan ➜
  • ang gereccan ➜
  • enm arecchen ➜
  • enm explanen ➜
  • enm irecchen ➜
  • fro explaner ➜
  • la ex ➜
  • la explano ➜
  • la plano ➜
  • la planus ➜
  • en splain ➜

Antonyms

  • en obfuscate (v) ➜
  • en confuse ➜
  • en ask ➜
  • en question ➜

Things that make you want explain

  • en A vexatious litigant ➜

Things that want explain

  • en a person ➜

Things that require explain

  • en express information ➜

Things motivated by explain

  • en talk ➜

explain is a subevent of…

  • en give examples ➜

Links to other resources

  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 200941308-v
  • wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu 201067478-v
  • en.wiktionary.org explain
  • fr.wiktionary.org explain
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