ADJECTIVE | all | precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited |
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all | precise, accurate, exact | (of ideas, images, representations / representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth |
Sounds | prihsay's; priysay's | |
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Rhymes | advice ... vise: 29 rhymes with ays... |
Meaning | sharply exact or accurate or delimited. | |
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Narrower | dead | unerringly accurate |
fine | minutely precise especially in differences in meaning / meaning | |
finespun, hairsplitting | Developed in excessively fine detail | |
meticulous, punctilious | marked by precise accordance with details | |
microscopic | Extremely precise with great attention to details | |
nice, skillful | done / done / done with delicacy and skill | |
on the nose, on the button | precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion | |
refined | Precise to a fine degree | |
very | precisely as stated | |
See also | accurate | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy |
distinct | Easy to perceive / perceive | |
exact | marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact | |
specific | (sometimes followed by 'to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | |
Opposite | imprecise | not precise |
Spanish | definido, exacto, preciso | |
Catalan | precís | |
Nouns | preciseness | clarity as a consequence of precision |
Adverbs | precisely | indicating exactness or preciseness |
Meaning | (of ideas, images, representations / representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct. | |
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Synonyms | accurate, exact | |
Broader | correct, right | Free from error |
Spanish | clavado, exacta, exacto, perfecto, precisa, preciso | |
Catalan | clavat, exacte, perfecte, precís | |
Nouns | preciseness | the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance |
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