SPECIFICALLY


Meaning of SPECIFICALLY in English

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

You use ~ to emphasize that something is given special attention and considered separately from other things of the same kind.

...the first nursing home designed ~ for people with AIDS...

We haven’t ~ targeted school children.

...the only book ~ about that event.

ADV: ADV with v emphasis

2.

You use ~ to add something more precise or exact to what you have already said.

...the Christian, and ~ Protestant, religion.

...brain cells, or more ~, neurons.

ADV: ADV with group

3.

You use ~ to indicate that something has a restricted nature, as opposed to being more general in nature.

...a ~ female audience...

This is a European, and not a ~ British, problem.

ADV: ADV adj

4.

If you state or describe something ~, you state or describe it precisely and clearly.

I ~ asked for this steak rare.

ADV: ADV with v

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