Usually means: Precisely, with complete accuracy, correctness.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exactly: Merriam-Webster
  2. exactly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exactly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exactly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exactly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exactly, exactly: Wordnik
  7. exactly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exactly: Wiktionary
  9. exactly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exactly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exactly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exactly, exactly: Dictionary.com
  13. exactly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Exactly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. exactly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. exactly: Rhymezone
  17. exactly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. exactly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. exactly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. exactly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. exactly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. exactly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. exactly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exactly: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exactly: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  (manner) Without approximation; precisely.
▸ adverb:  (focus) Precisely, used to provide emphasis.

Similar:
precisely, just, incisively, on the button, on the dot, on the nose, what, exact, same, nearly, more...

Opposite:
approximately, roughly, vaguely, loosely, inaccurately

Types:
precisely, exactly the same, exactly the same as, more...

Phrases:
not exactly, my sentiments exactly, Every Day Is Exactly the Same, Does exactly what it says on the tin, exactly vertical, more...



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Similar:
precisely, just, incisively, on the button, on the dot, on the nose, what, exact, same, nearly, more...

Opposite:
approximately, roughly, vaguely, loosely, inaccurately

Types:
precisely, exactly the same, exactly the same as, more...

Phrases:
not exactly, my sentiments exactly, Every Day Is Exactly the Same, Does exactly what it says on the tin, exactly vertical, exactly right, exactly the same, exactly what im looking for, made exactly like, more...



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