Thesaurus:in other words
English edit
Adverb edit
Sense: used to introduce an explanation, simplification, or clarification edit
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- Clarification:
- more precisely
- rather
- Correction:
- Simplification:
- in layman's terms (idiomatic)
- in plain English
- put simply
- simplistically
- Specification:
Various edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “522. interpretation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “in other words” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.