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explainer

explainer

1 4.0
A short video or article that makes a topic easy to understand
  • noun
  • /ɪkˈspleɪnər/
  • Literature
translation icon : explicación
  • For a concise overview, you should read the explainer on climate change provided by the environmental organization.
  • a helpful explainer
  • a good explainer

Could you give us just a quick explainer on what Invest America is?

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Examples

  • The teacher created an engaging explainer video to help students understand the topic.

  • (Adam Doster wrote an excellent explainer for Progress Illinois in 2010.)

    Blog text (7)
  • Behind the glass, the explainer held up a sign: "T-A-L-K."

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Could you give us just a quick explainer on what Invest America is?

  • And they make short explainer videos that engage people not only in disseminating information, but entertaining them as well.

  • Der Spiegel's Sven Bll and Anne Seith have published a good explainer about the situation.

    Blog text (1)
  • This article serves as a clear explainer on the new healthcare policies that will take effect next year.

Synonyms

explanation
vsexplainer
1.0

A statement that makes something clear or helps someone understand

is presented as a short media item rather than a general account
exposition
vsexplainer
16 5.5

A clear explanation of an idea or subject that makes it easy to understand

is briefer and made as a short media piece for simple understanding
elucidation
vsexplainer
  • Formal
1 6.5

An explanation that makes something clear and easy to understand

is given as a short media piece simplifying the topic

Antonyms

389 1.8

A time when things are not organized and people do not know what to think or do

Information that is wrong and shared by mistake

How Clear

explainer
  • Literature
1 4.0
brief
587 2.0
feature article
  • Literature
3 3.8

Surface Forms

explainer singular
explainers plural

Morphology

explainer = explain (transparent) = explain + er

Productive nominalization indicating an entity (e.g., article or video) that explains; meaning is compositional.

Etymology

Explainer comes from explain, from old words meaning 'make plain', like the English word plain. That's why an explainer is often a short article or video that 'makes a topic clear' quickly.