precisely

Adverb

Meaning

indicating exactness or preciseness

in a precise manner

just as it should be

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

just exactly properly on the button on the dot incisively on the nose yes verily yea amen doubtlessly spang even right
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Antonyms

imprecisely about some around never almost
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Phrases with the word

at precisely the right moment at precisely the right time calculate precisely precisely the same

Examples

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. John Chrysostom

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. Rebecca West

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. Dale Carnegie

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. Robert Louis Stevenson

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson

It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

precise right angle precise situation precise thinking precisely unless preciseness precisian