WordDisk
  • Reading
    • Shortcuts
      •   Home
      •   All Articles
      •   Read from Another Site
      Sources
      • Wikipedia
      • Simple Wikipedia
      • VOA Learning English
      • Futurity
      • The Conversation
      • MIT News
      • Harvard Gazette
      • Cambridge News
      • YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
      Topics
      • Technology
      • Engineering
      • Business
      • Economics
      • Human
      • Health
      • Energy
      • Biology
      • Nature
      • Space
  •  Log in
  •  Sign up
4.49
History
Add

detailed adjective [ ˈdiːteɪld ]

• having many details or facts; showing attention to detail.
• "more detailed information was needed"
Similar: comprehensive, full, complete, circumstantial, thorough, exhaustive, all-inclusive, elaborate, minute, intricate, explicit, specific, precise, exact, accurate, meticulous, painstaking, itemized, particularized, particular, blow-by-blow,
Opposite: general, brief,

detail verb

• give full information about.
• "the report details proposals to improve public transport"
Similar: present, describe, set out, set forth, draw up, delineate, frame, explain, expound, relate, give an account of, recount, narrate, recite, rehearse, catalogue, list, spell out, point out, itemize, enumerate, tabulate, particularize, identify, specify, define, state, declare, announce, cite, quote, instance, mention, name, designate, be specific about, individuate,
Opposite: outline,
• assign (someone) to undertake a particular task.
• "the ships were detailed to keep watch"
Similar: assign, allocate, appoint, delegate, commission, ordain, charge, send, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt, select, choose,
• clean (a motor vehicle) thoroughly.
Origin: early 17th century (in the sense ‘minor items or events regarded collectively’): from French détail (noun), détailler (verb), from dé- (expressing separation) + tailler ‘to cut’ (based on Latin talea ‘twig, cutting’).

in detail

• as regards every feature or aspect; fully.
• "we will have to examine the proposals in detail"
Similar: thoroughly, in depth, exhaustively, from top to bottom, minutely, closely, point by point, item by item, blow by blow, meticulously, rigorously, scrupulously, assiduously, conscientiously, painstakingly, methodically, carefully, sedulously, completely, comprehensively, fully, to the fullest extent, intensively, extensively,


2025 WordDisk