Meanings
- idiomaticThoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars.
I do not understand it; please explain it to me in detail.
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When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC - governmentBy engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.
Darius defeated the rebels in detail.
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Macdonald might easily have destroyed them in detail could he have fallen upon them at once; but the time he spent in reorganising his army in Tuscany, and in concerting measures with Moreau, was well employed by Suvarof in promptly concentrating his forces.
1855, Walter Keating Kelly, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Ségur, page 175
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
Arabic بِالتَّفْصِيل, تَفْصِيلًا
- بِالتَّفْصِيل (bi-t-tafṣīl)with all particulars
- تَفْصِيلًا (tafṣīlan)with all particulars
Bulgarian подро́бно
- подро́бно (podróbno)with all particulars
Chinese Mandarin 詳細地 /详细地, 詳盡地 /详尽地
- 詳細地 /详细地 (xiángxì de)with all particulars
- 詳盡地 /详尽地 (xiángjìn de)with all particulars
Esperanto detale
- detalewith all particulars
Finnish yksityiskohtaisesti
- yksityiskohtaisestiwith all particulars
French en détail, par le menu
- en détailwith all particulars
- par le menuwith all particulars
German ausführlich, in allen Einzelheiten
- ausführlichwith all particulars
- in allen Einzelheitenwith all particulars
- detailliertwith all particulars
Hindi विस्तारपूर्वक
- विस्तारपूर्वक (vistārpūrvak)with all particulars
Italian nei dettagli, in dettaglio
- nei dettagliwith all particulars
- in dettagliowith all particulars
Japanese 詳しく, 詳細に
- 詳しく (kuwashiku)with all particulars
- 詳細に (shōsai ni)with all particulars
Korean 자세히
- 자세히 (jasehi)with all particulars
Latin nōminātim
- nōminātimwith all particulars
Persian با جزئیات, دقیقاً
- با جزئیات (bâ joz'iyât)with all particulars
- دقیقاً (daqiqan)with all particulars
- مفصلاً (mofassalan)with all particulars
Polish szczegółowo
- szczegółowowith all particulars
Portuguese em detalhes, detalhadamente
- em detalheswith all particulars
- detalhadamentewith all particulars
Romanian în detaliu
- în detaliuwith all particulars
Russian подро́бно, обстоя́тельно
- подро́бно (podróbno)with all particulars
- обстоя́тельно (obstojátelʹno)with all particulars
- в дета́лях (v detáljax)with all particulars
- дета́льно (detálʹno)with all particulars
Spanish en detalle, con detenimiento
- en detallewith all particulars
- con detenimientowith all particulars
Swedish utförligt
- utförligtwith all particulars
Turkish ayrıntılı bir şekilde, detaylı bir şekilde
- ayrıntılı bir şekildewith all particulars
- detaylı bir şekildewith all particulars
- detaylıcawith all particulars
- etraflıcawith all particulars
Ukrainian докла́дно, наро́здріб
- докла́дно (dokládno)with all particulars
- наро́здріб (narózdrib)with all particulars
- дета́льно (detálʹno)with all particulars
Cite this entry
in detail. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20detail
“in detail.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20detail. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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