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English
Etymology
precise + -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsaɪsli/
- Hyphenation: pre‧cise‧ly
Adverb
precisely (comparative more precisely, superlative most precisely)
- (manner) In a precise manner; exactly.
- Synonyms: exactly, incisively; see also Thesaurus:exactly
- Antonym: imprecisely
I always try to express myself precisely.
- (focus) Used to provide emphasis.
Derived terms
Translations
in a precise manner
- Bulgarian: точно (bg) (točno), прецизно (bg) (precizno)
- Catalan: precisament (ca)
- Danish: præcist
- Dutch: precies (nl)
- Esperanto: precize
- Finnish: tarkalleen (fi), täsmälleen (fi), tarkasti (fi), tarkkaan (fi), täsmällisesti (fi)
- French: précisément (fr)
- Galician: precisamente
- German: präzise (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌱𐌰 (glaggwaba)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀκριβῶς (akribôs), ἀτρεκέως (atrekéōs)
- Hindi: यथार्थतः (hi) (yathārthataḥ), यथावत् (hi) (yathāvat), ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk), ठीक-ठीक (ṭhīk-ṭhīk)
- Hungarian: pontosan (hu)
- Italian: precisamente (it), esattamente (it)
- Latin: ad unguem, adeō (la), examussim
- Macedonian: точно (točno)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: presist, nøyaktig (no)
- Nynorsk: presist
- Polish: precyzyjnie (pl), dokładnie (pl)
- Portuguese: precisamente (pt), justamente (pt), exatamente (pt)
- Romanian: precis (ro), precizamente (ro) (rare)
- Russian: то́чно (ru) (tóčno)
- Serbo-Croatian: tačno (sh), тачно
- Spanish: precisamente (es)
- Swedish: precis (sv)
- Yiddish: דווקא (dafke)
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