precise

Speech parts

1. precise - Adjective

2. precise - Verb

3. precise - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

accurate exact particular correct scrupulous definite specific close true clear distinct formal detailed explicit careful
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Antonyms

imprecise stochastic about some off general
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Phrases with the word

to be precise less precise precise situation precise number precise results precise order

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Examples

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. Arthur Miller

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. Bertrand Russell

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. Henri Cartier-Bresson

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. John Tukey

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. Gustave Flaubert

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand Russell

Close letter words and terms

precipitousness precipitron precis precise angle precise diagnosis precise firepower