Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In an exact manner; accurately.
- adv. In all respects; just: Do exactly as you please.
- adv. As you say. Used to indicate agreement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an exact manner; precisely according to rule, measure, fact, circumstance, etc.; with minute correctness; accurately: as, a tenon exactly fitted to the mortise.
Wiktionary
- adv. manner without approximation; precisely.
- adv. focus Used to provide emphasis.
- interj. Signifies agreement or recognition
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in a precise manner
- adv. indicating exactness or preciseness
- adv. just as it should be
Etymologies
- exact + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Because it smells exactly and I mean *exactly* like Wint-o-green Life Savers.”
“You'll do exactly what I tell you, _exactly_, without asking how or why?”
“And as we know, doing exactly what Bush wants, no questions asked is *exactly* the same as failing to oppose him in all things no matter what even if it means abandoning a liberal cause he happens to take up, the bastard.”
“a dollar in my pocket and she walks exactly to please me -- walks _exactly_ to please me.”
“Wikus isn’t exactly a Nazi, in the same way that modern European meddlers in the 3rd world aren’t *exactly* Nazis…they only kill unborn undesireables.”
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“But a given climate model, if fed with exactly the same inputs, should be re-runnable to produce * exactly* the same outputs, down to the lowest bit (and if it isn't reproducible down to the lowest bit it will rapidly diverge: there is a good illustration of this in”
“Hannah pulled her head up, her expression exactly the same as that of the little girl she had once been, caught with her hand in the biscuit tin.”
“And another book that James gave me - I can't remember the title exactly but it's something like the Story of Long Tack Sam.”
“It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian”
“Whereas for Fred and Kathy, Larry represented more than “just” a child—he speculated to me that they chose his name exactly because it sounded so American.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘exactly’.
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steffany(grade 2)
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jackgrade2
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
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Go to work on an egg
Words which - with a modicum of tolerance in pronunciation - sound like ways of cooking eggs.
exacerbate, exculpate, exclamatory, exhume, expansion, expeditious, explicit, expostulate, expunge, extortionate, extravaganza, exultant and 31 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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WrightHandWords's Words
yclept, unction, prana, satya, abhyasa, vairagya, yoga, ashtanga, acronym, etymology, asana, widget and 286 more...
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spoon's Words
tuffet, spoon, eigenvalue, eigenvector, eigenspace, stoked, orgy, nonagon, humanitarian, life, cheesesteak, nice and 78 more...
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Favorites list
Some of my favorites
relative, exactly, intrinsic, instantiation, specific, thermonuclear, intercontinental, ballistic, trajectory, transatlantic, atmospheric, generator and 3 more...
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TT2 Lesson 20
acknowledge, act, adult, affection, age, agreement, authority, awesome, bogus, bother, common, commonplace and 58 more...
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chrozz's Words
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please don't.
words or phrases i use too often or wished i never used at all.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for exactly.
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