verbatim

Speech parts

1. verbatim - Noun

2. verbatim - Adjective

3. verbatim - Adverb

5. verbatim - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

word for word direct by heart good close letter directly closely correct exactly accurate precise strict strictly explicit
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Antonyms

different approximately badly indirectly incorrectly mistakenly
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Phrases with the word

verbatim et litteratim learn verbatim bill of rights verbatim

Anagrams

ambivert

Examples

Whenever a tradition of the Holy Prophet is related to you, scrutinize it, do not be satisfied with mere verbatim repetition of the same because there are many people who repeat the words containing knowledge but only few ponder over them and try to fully grasp the meaning they convey. Ali

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. Chuck Palahniuk

I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago. James Herriot

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well. John Henrik Clarke

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Close letter words and terms

verbascum phoeniceum verbascum thapsus verbate verbatim et literatim verbatim et litteratim verbatimness