exact
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
"to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone"
2. To make desirable or necessary.
3. To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
"to exact revenge on someone"
1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
"He paid the exact debt."
2. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
"In my doings I was exact."
3. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
4. (of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
Synonyms
≠ Antonyms
1. Exactly
"She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!"
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Source: en.wiktionary.org
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