| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
| Synonyms: | accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, not figurative, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, to the letter, true, undeviating, unerring, unexaggerated, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |
| Main Entry: | verbatim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exactly |
| Synonyms: | accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, to the letter, word-for-word |
| Antonyms: | different |
| Main Entry: | word for word |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | using exactly the same words |
| Synonyms: | according to the letter, faithfully, in the same words, ipsissimis verbis, literally, literatim, strictly, to the letter, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word and letter for letter, word-perfectly |