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specific

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"Exact and clear"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ccefiipsStarts with SEnds with C1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. stated explicitly or in detail

Word origin

From Old French specifique, from Late Latin specificus (“specific, particular”), from Latin speciēs (“kind”) + -ific.

Used in a sentence

  • Holonyms: generic, familial
  • Meronyms: infrasubspecific, infraspecific, subspecific
  • Science and literature, then, are the two achievements of Homo sapiens that most convincingly justify the specific name.

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