strictly speaking

Adverb

Meaning

in actual fact

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

properly speaking rather particularly actually completely directly especially closely specifically exactly correctly namely specially absolutely surgically
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Antonyms

grandly generally approximately commonly frequently more or less
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Examples

properly speaking, they are not husband and wife Source: Internet

Although strictly speaking this is not a part of the breathing apparatus, it is usually connected to the diver's air supply, to provide easy inflation of the device. Source: Internet

Although they are not, strictly speaking, a caste, since they are not Hindus, they form a well-defined community. Source: Internet

And strictly speaking, all these religions are blasphemies or insulting systems. Source: Internet

Amy Adams tries her best to tear into her role as a sadistic, sex-obsessed bully but the script for Cruel Intentions 2 – strictly speaking, a prequel, but sssh – is so bad that even she failed to save it. Source: Internet

Children of this mixed parentage are called half-bloods (strictly speaking, they are 'Literal Half-bloods'); children with recent Muggle ancestry on the one side or the other are also called half-bloods. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

strictly proper strictly regulated strictly restrained strictness stricto senso stricto sensu