Specific Spəˈsɪfɪk Tomorrow Collected Adjective Bre I Gave

• i gave you specific instructions.
• ‘i'd like your help tomorrow.’ ‘can you be more specific (= tell me exactly what you want)?’
• children’s television programmes aimed at a specific age group
• the money was collected for a specific purpose.

specific

1. detailed and exact
• synonym precise
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/precise
• I gave you specific instructions.
• ‘I'd like your help tomorrow.’ ‘Can you be more specific (= tell me exactly what you want)?’
2. connected with one particular thing only
• synonym particular
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/particular_1
• children’s television programmes aimed at a specific age group
• The money was collected for a specific purpose.
• children with specific learning difficulties (= in one area only)
3. existing only in one place or limited to one thing
• synonym peculiar
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/peculiar
• a belief that is specific to this part of Africa

Extra Examples

• Can you be a little more specific in your instructions?
• Highly specific instructions were issued.
• She was quite specific about the type she wanted.
• These heart issues are specific to women.
• These values are culturally specific, not naturally given.
• issuing a highly specific set of instructions
• ‘I’d like your help tomorrow.’ ‘Can you be more specific?’
• Each debate will focus on a specific political issue.
• We try to meet the specific requirements of our clients.

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent. (originally in the sense ‘having a special determining quality’): from late Latin specificus, from Latin species ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.