exact

Meanings

Adjective

• Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
• Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
• Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
• Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

Verb

• To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
• To make desirable or necessary.
• To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

Adverb

• exactly

Related

Similar words

• perfect, true, correct, precise
• strict
• spot on

Opposite words

• inexact, imprecise, approximate
• loose

Origin

• From Old French, from Medieval Latin exactare, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō, from ex + agō.