Detail

Noun

 * 1)  Something small enough to escape casual notice.
 * Note this fine detail in the lower left corner.
 * We missed several important details in the contract.
 * 1)  A profusion of details.
 * This etching is full of fine detail
 * 1) Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
 * I don't concern myself with the details of accounting
 * 1)  A person's name, address and other personal information.
 * The arresting officer asked the suspect for his details.
 * 1)  A temporary unit or assignment.

Verb

 * 1)  to explain in detail
 * I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
 * 1)  (US (?)) to clean carefully (particularly a car)
 * We need to have the minivan detailed.
 * 1)  to assign to a particular task

Adjectives for Detail
rich; decorative; sickening; harmonious; intimate; perturbing; enduring; incredible; visual; elaborate; irrelevant; minute; ornate; amusing; personal; trivial; luscious; troublesome; unpoetical; fictitious; superficial; architectural; repugnant; alarming; impeccable; sensuous; outstanding; conventional; authentic; characteristic; confusing; ingenious; harrowing; technical; tedious; cumbersome; painful; disgusting; exquisite; complete; distinctive; profound; vivid; profuse; charming; unimportant; commonplace; agonizing; remaining; ornamental; profligate; petty; admirable; picturesque; remarkable; significant; sharp; graphic; fervid; reliable; voluminous; appropriate; devastating; realistic; revolting; hateful; trifling; little; worrisome; vexatious; delicate; subtle; gossip" ing; brief; merest; dull; complicated; tiniest; circumstantial; grim; sordid; collateral; sufficient; loveliest; essential; unusual; perplexing; mean; unrevealed; cleverest; homely; domestic; biographical; scenic; endless; methodical; exact; statistical; clear; restless; hampering; subordinate; heterogeneous; vulgar; needless; topographical; pedantic; faultless; historical; meager; concise; irksome; dreary; myriad (Pi).

Verbs for Detail
array—s; authenticate—s; avoid—; chronicle—s; contribute to—; correlate—s; describe—s; dig out—s; dispense with—; divulge—; dwell upon—; enumerate in—; furnish with—s; grapple with—; grasp—; intersperse—s; marshal—s; master—s; memorize—s; note—s; observe—s; offer in—; parade —s; rehearse—s; relate—s; repeat—s; reveal—s; set forth—s; spare—s; study—s; suppress—s; thrash out—s; treat in—; underestimate—; unearth—; waive —; wrestle with —s; —bewilder; —bore; —elude; —enrich; —leak out; — weary.

Adverbs for Detail
minutely; intimately; visually; elaborately; irrelevantly; amusingly; trivially; lusciously; poetically; superficially; significantly; conventionally;  authentically;  characteristically; tediously; completely; profusely; vividly; picturesquely; fervidly; voluminously; realistically; vexatiously; briefly; sordidly; endlessly; exactly; methodically; statistically; vulgarly; meagerly; irksomely; drearily.

Synonyms for Detail
noun
 * technicality, trifle, triviality
 * particulars
 * contingent, detachment
 * portion, part, item, specification, article, account, recital, description, narrative.

verb
 * specify
 * detach
 * tell, relate, itemize, report, narrate, appoint, assign, particularize, describe

Antonyms for Detail

 * (noun) whole, entirety
 * ( verb) conceal, hide, cover, withhold, stifle, suppress, evade, reserve

Derived terms

 * in detail
 * detail-oriented
 * detailing

Thesaurus
KP, accredit, accuracy, add up, adduce, adjunct, age group, allocate, allot, amplify, anatomize, appoint, appropriate to, appurtenance, army, army group, article, aspect, assign, assign to, atomize, attention to detail, authorize, background, background detail, band, battalion, battery, battle group, bevy, block out, body, brigade, bunch, cabal, cadre, case, cast, cast up, catalogue, charge, charter, cipher up, circumstance, circumstantiality, circumstantiate, cite, clique, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, commission, commit, company, complement, complete, component, comprehensively, conscientiousness, consign, constituent, contents, contingent, corps, correctness, coterie, count, count up, covey, crew, criticality, criticalness, cross section, crowd, datum, decorative composition, decorative style, delegate, delicacy, delineate, depute, deputize, descant, descend to particulars, design, destine, detach, detachment, details, develop, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, dilate, division, document, dole, duty, earmark, elaborate, element, empower, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, entrust, enumerate, evolve, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exhaustively, expand, expatiate, explicate, exquisiteness, facet, fact, faction, factor, fate, fatigue, feature, field army, field train, figure, figure up, file, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, fixings, fleet, flying column, foil, foot up, foreground detail, form, fraction, fussiness, gang, garrison, give full particulars, give in charge, go into, group, grouping, groupment, in detail, in-group, incidental, individualize, ingredient, inside out, installment, instance, integrant, inventory, item, item by item, itemize, junta, kitchen police, labor, legion, license, list, lot, make assignments, makings, maniple, mark off, mark out for, matter, meticulousness, minor detail, minuteness, minutia, minutiae, mission, mob, motif, movement, name, national style, niceness, niceties, nicety, number, ordain, organization, ornamental motif, out-group, outfit, outline, pack, parcel, parse, part, part and parcel, particular, particularity, particularize, particularly, particularness, particulars, party, pattern, peculiarize, peer group, percentage, perfectly, period style, personalize, phalanx, platoon, point, portion, portion off, posse, post, precise, preciseness, precisianism, precision, punctiliousness, punctuality, quadrant, quarter, quota, random sample, rank, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, recount, refinement, regard, regiment, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate, relate at large, remainder, repeated figure, reserve, resolve, respect, restrict, restrict to, rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, salon, sample, sampling, scan, schedule, schematize, score up, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, section, sector, segment, send, send out, set, set apart, set aside, set off, setting, share, specialize, specialty, specific, specifically, specifics, specify, spell out, squad, squadron, stable, stipulate, strictness, string, style, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, substantiate, subtlety, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, tabulate, tactical unit, tag, tally up, task force, team, technicalities, technicality, theme, thing, thoroughly, tot up, total, total up, tote up, touch, train, transfer, tribe, troop, troupe, unfold, unit, warrant, wing, work out

Etymology
détail:, from detail:, from detaillier:, from de-: + taillier:.

Pronunciation

 * Noun:
 * ; dē'tāl, /"di:teIl/
 * Verb:
 * ; dē'tāl, /"di:teIl/
 * 🇺🇸 ; dĭtāl',

Noun

 * Arabic:, تفاصيل
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, подробност
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: detalje
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Einzelheit


 * Hebrew: פרט (prat')
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Lithuanian:, detalė
 * Portuguese: detalhe ((m))
 * Russian: деталь (detál’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: detalj, enskildhet
 * Telugu: వివరం (vivaram)


 * Bulgarian: детайлност
 * Danish: detaljer
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: detalji (usually in plural)
 * French:


 * German:
 * Portuguese: detalhe ((m))
 * Russian: деталь (detál’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: detalj


 * Armenian: մանրուք
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: detalje
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: yksityiskohta, epäolennaisuus
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: ; פרט (prat')


 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian:, detalė
 * Portuguese: detalhe ((m))
 * Russian: деталь (detál’), подробность (podróbnost’) , тонкость (tónkost’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: oväsentlighet, oväsentlig sak
 * Telugu: వివరం (vivaram)


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: persoonsgegevens n, pl
 * Finnish:


 * French: coordonnées f, pl
 * Hebrew: פרטים (prat'ym)


 * Dutch: detachement
 * French:
 * Russian: ,


 * Spanish: destacamento
 * Swedish: detachement, kommendering, utkommendering


 * : detalle (1,2,3)

Verb

 * Bulgarian: излагам подробно
 * Dutch: gedetailleerd uitleggen, detailleren, gedetailleerd beschrijven
 * Estonian: täpselt selgitama
 * Finnish: selittää tarkasti/yksityiskohtaisesti/huolellisesti, tarkentaa
 * French:


 * German: detaillisieren
 * Italian:
 * Swedish: beskriva detaljerat, gå in på detaljer, räkna upp, specificera
 * Telugu: విశదీకరించు (viSadeekariMchu)


 * Dutch: uitgebreid schoonmaken


 * Swedish: avdela, detachera, kommendera, ta ut


 * Portuguese: detalhar

Anagrams

 * dilate
 * tailed

Noun

 * 1) detail

Synonyms

 * podrobnost

Related terms

 * detailní

Noun

 * 1) detail

Derived terms

 * detailhandel