exactly

[ig-zakt-lee] / ɪgˈzækt li /

ADVERB

accurately, particularly

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absolutely altogether carefully completely correctly definitely explicitly indeed literally precisely quite specifically strictly totally truly

STRONG

just

WEAK

bang expressly faithfully faultlessly for a fact for certain for sure in every respect methodically no mistake on the dot on the money on the nail on the nose positively right rigorously scrupulously severely sharp square the ticket truthfully unequivocally unerringly utterly veraciously wholly

Antonyms

STRONGEST

doubtfully dubiously incompletely indefinite partially questionably

WEAK

inaccurately inexactly

Example Sentences

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"These new images raise more questions about what exactly the Department of Justice has in its possession," said ranking member of the committee, Robert Garcia.

From BBC

The unretirement rate is exactly what it sounds like: the share of workers who claim to be retired at a given point and then report that they are working a year later.

From MarketWatch

But like other chip-production facilities, memory fabrication plants don’t exactly go up overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That is exactly the type of approach that I always try to keep in mind when I’m talking to a jury,” Jackson said in an interview with a law website in 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal

All of us are looking for love, and none of us know exactly where to find it.

From Salon

exactly

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