Word Meanings - EXACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps

Additional info about word: EXACT

drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett 2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact. "I see thou art exact of taste." Milton. 3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict. An exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reason. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXACT)

• Accurate
• Careful
• exact
• faithful
• precise
• correct
• close
• truthful
• strict
• just
• actual
• nice
• Conscientious
• Scrupulous
• equitable
• upright
• highprincipled
• Correct \adj true
• faultless
• accurate
• proper
• decorous
• right
• Critical
• Nice
• delicate
• fastidious
• discriminating
• censorious
• dubious
• precarious
• ticklish
• crucial
• important
• momentous
• hazardous
• Definite
• Clear
• specified
• determined
• definitive
• restricted
• specific
• certain
• ascertained
• fixed
• limited
• bounded
• positive

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXACT)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to EXACT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• DUBIOUSNESS
  State of being dubious.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DEFINITIVE
  1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.