exactly
indicating exactness or preciseness
How often you will meet it
Rank 859 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,393 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adverb
- indicating exactness or preciseness also: precisely, just, properly he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to doit was just as he said--the jewel was gone
- just as it should be also: precisely, on the nose, on the dot, on the button `Precisely, my lord,' he said
- in a precise manner also: precisely, incisively she always expressed herself precisely
exactly in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But what exactly do we mean by this?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Paredes's features, it occurred to him, were exactly like a mask.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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But Lady Brandon treats her guests exactly as an auctioneer treats his goods.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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As the Fenians always do exactly what they promise to do, this may be relied upon as certain to happen.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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General Grant was looking exactly as he had looked upon that trying occasion of ten years before--all iron and bronze self-possession.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1