| 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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