CLARIFIED Synonyms: 125 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

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verb

past tense of clarify

as in refined

to remove usually visible impurities from clarify the melted butter by skimming off the milky bits

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as in explained

to make plain or understandable it would help if you could clarify your position for us

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Adjective

The nine courses move between drink and dish, from a Sundarban honey mead with cotton candy to a Tooyamalli rice cocktail with clarified rasam, whiskey and rice foam, served alongside a Gunpowder Idli filled with pepper crab and caviar. — Karina Acharya, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026 SpaceX is reluctant to divulge details on how this works, but last year a NASA experiment called Starling clarified parts of the process. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026 How will roles need to be re-designed or re-clarified? — Paula Davis, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 The bar serves a clarified nut-milk punch inspired by Caribbean black cake, while the kitchen turns Carolina Gold rice into sake. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026 The final regulation the IRS released Friday names over 70 occupations that may receive tips which may qualify for the deduction, as well as a clarified definition of qualifying tips. — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 13 Apr. 2026 These songs have the clarified rush of an emotional pressure change, like the sensation of removing foam earplugs. — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2026 Learn more about clarified butter and how to channel Martha when preparing the day’s most important meal. — Laura Manzano, Martha Stewart, 21 Jan. 2026

Verb

The California Department of Education clarified that a waiver the district received only applies to the 80% staffing rule and does not extend the three-year spending deadline, meaning unexpended funds revert to the state. — Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026 Officials do not know what caused the chemical release, which the city clarified was not an explosion. — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026 Jonas also clarified that the novel at the center of the confrontation was listed in Lake Norman High School’s electronic library catalog but was not physically on the shelves. — Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026 Mayer also clarified that a new single is definitely coming this year. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2026 Microsoft later clarified that the productivity figure reflected multiple factors and could not be attributed to the challenge alone. — Joe Manok, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Woodlawn Lake Park representatives clarified in the Instagram caption that Planet K organizes the event without involvement or collaboration from the city, City Council District 7 or the Woodlawn Lake Community Association. — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026 However, Microsoft has clarified that RTX Spark laptops are indeed Copilot+ machines. — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 The moon is a natural satellite, Google clarified for them live on-air. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for clarified

Adjective

Short for polydeoxyribonucleotide, it’s made from small, purified fragments of DNA taken from the sperm cells of certain fish, usually salmon or trout.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Scaling remains major challenge Beyond reducing errors, Google’s researchers demonstrated that the purified quantum states could be transferred between two different error-correction methods.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of purified

Verb

The database can be filtered by gender, region, size and other characteristics, providing a more detailed view of the populations brands are designing for.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026
Results can be searched and filtered, and files can be previewed before recovery.

— StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of filtered

Verb

Smith also explained what would happen if a legal challenge ultimately failed, including continuity arrangements with European partners and backup copies of Microsoft’s code held in Switzerland.

— Margot Edelman, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Longini explained that climate change is increasing mosquito populations and lengthening their active seasons, contributing to dengue’s spread globally.

— Alex DeLuca, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of explained

Adjective

This increase helped offset falling exports of refined products, as damage to refineries left more crude available for export.

— Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 23 Oct. 2026
That refined seriousness, paired with the skin-tight fit, creates an image of both sophistication and sexiness.

— Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of refined

Verb

Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
In that moment, walking through room after room of marble and silk and silver, all of it extracted from illiterate workers in the fields and fishing boats on the horizon, the reasons for the Protestant Reformation became fully clear to me.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

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The wondrous story was adapted by frequent Laika collaborator Chris Butler from the epic 2011 novel written by Colin Meloy (frontman for indie rock band the Decemberists, whose original music is featured here) and illustrated by Carson Ellis.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The blockbuster ambitions are best illustrated by the production’s recruitment of Rambaldi.

— J. Kim Murphy, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of illustrated

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Last year, Abrams had delicately cleaned the tombstone of Mary Bailey, who died in 1852 at just 21 years old.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
And the service is unparalleled, including bathrooms that are cleaned after every use—our own houses aren’t that tidy.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026

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