English Explanatory Dictionary

specifically

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. In a specific manner, applying to or naming a particular thing or things, expressly, explicitly.
  2. For a specific purpose or reason.

Pronunciation

/spɪˈsɪf.ɪ.kli/ /spəˈsɪf.ɪ.kli/ en-us-specifically.ogg /spəˈsəf.ə.kli/

Word forms

specifically more specifically most specifically especifically

Etymology

From specific + -ally.

Synonyms

especially in especial in particular namely particularly peculiarly specially specifically to wit clearly directly downrightly explicitly expressis verbis expressly patently plainly unambiguously unequivocally univocally

Antonyms

generally typically classically

Related words

individually uniquely in other words

Derived words

aspecifically biospecifically extraspecifically gender-specifically heterospecifically monospecifically nonspecifically polyspecifically subspecifically transspecifically unspecifically
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