HyperDic: properly_speaking

English > 1 sense of the expression properly speaking:
ADVERBallproperly speaking, strictly speaking, to be precisein actual fact
English > properly speaking: 1 sense > adverb 1
MeaningIn actual fact.
Example"properly speaking, they are not husband and wife"
Synonymsstrictly speaking, to be precise
Catalanen rigor, per ser precisos

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