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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | explanatory note |
| Synonyms: | comment, commentary, definition, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, footnote, gloss, glossary, illustration, interpretation, note, observation |
| Antonyms: | blank |
| Main Entry: | commentary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | analysis |
| Synonyms: | annotation, appreciation, comment, consideration, criticism, critique, description, discourse, exegesis, explanation, exposition, gloss, narration, notes, obiter dictum, observation, remark, review, treatise, voice-over |
| Main Entry: | definition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | description |
| Synonyms: | analogue, annotation, answer, characterization, clarification, clue, comment, commentary, cue, delimitation, delineation, demarcation, denotation, determination, diagnosis, drift, elucidation, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, fixing, formalization, gloss, individuation, interpretation, key, outlining, rationale, rendering, rendition, representation, settling, signification, solution, statement of meaning, terminology, translation |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, nonsense, vagueness |
| 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, explication, 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 |
| Antonyms: | complication |
| Main Entry: | exposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written description |
| Synonyms: | account, analysis, annotation, article, comment, commentary, composition, construal, construction, critique, delineation, details, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, editorial, elucidation, enucleation, enunciation, essay, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposé, expounding, history, illustration, interpretation, monograph, paper, piece, position paper, presentation, report, review, statement, story, study, tale, text, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, treatise |
| Main Entry: | gloss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | definition |
| Synonyms: | annotation, comment, commentary, elucidation, explanation, footnote, interpretation, note, translation |
| Antonyms: | misinformation |
| Main Entry: | note/notes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
| Synonyms: | agenda, annotation, calendar, comment, commentary, datum, definition, diary, dispatch, entry, epistle, gloss, inscription, jotting, journal, letter, line, marginalia, mark, memo, memorandum, message, minute, missive, obiter dictum, observation, record, remark, reminder, scratch, scrawl, scribble, summary, thank-you, word |
| Main Entry: | notes |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outline |
| Synonyms: | annotation, draft, impressions, jottings, marginalia, record, report, rough draft, summary, synopsis |
| Main Entry: | observation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comment on something scrutinized |
| Synonyms: | annotation, catch phrase, comeback, commentary, crack*, finding, mention, mouthful, note, obiter dictum, opinion, pronouncement, reflection, remark, say so, saying, thought, utterance, wisecrack |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | no comment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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