| Main Entry: | verbatim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exactly |
Synonyms: |
accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, to the letter, word-for-word |
Antonyms: |
different |
| Main Entry: | directly |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | straightforwardly |
Synonyms: |
candidly, face-to-face, honestly, in person, literally, openly, personally, plainly, point-black, truthfully, unequivocally, verbatim, without prevarication, word for word |
Antonyms: |
indirectly |
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accurate, precise |
Synonyms: |
bull's-eye, careful, clear, clear-cut, correct, dead on, definite, distinct, downright, explicit, express, faithful, faultless, identical, literal, methodical, nailed down, nice, on target, on the button, on the money, on the numbers, orderly, particular, perfect, right, right on, rigorous, sharp, specific, true, unequivocal, unerring, veracious, verbal, verbatim |
Antonyms: |
approximate, imprecise, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact |
| Main Entry: | literal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | word for word; exact, real |
Synonyms: |
accurate, actual, apparent, authentic, bona fide, close, critical, faithful, genuine, gospel, methodical, natural, not figurative, ordinary, plain, scrupulous, simple, strict, to the letter, true, undeviating, unerring, unexaggerated, unvarnished, usual, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veritable, written |
Antonyms: |
exaggerated, figurative, imaginative, loose |
| Main Entry: | literally |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | word for word; exactly |
Synonyms: |
actually, completely, correctly, direct, directly, faithfully, indisputably, letter by letter, literatim, not figuratively, plainly, precisely, really, rightly, rigorously, sic, simply, straight, strictly, to the letter, truly, undeviatingly, undisputably, unerringly, unmistakably, verbatim, veritably |
| Notes: | literally means 'with truth to the letter; exactly' or according to the strictest sense of the word or words, while figuratively means 'by or as a figure of speech; metaphorically', or 'in a descriptive, analogous, but metaphorical sense of the word or words |
Antonyms: |
figuratively, loosely |
| Main Entry: | verbal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
Synonyms: |
exact, expressed, lexical, lingual, literal, oral, phrasal, rhetorical, said, stated, told, unwritten, verbatim, word-for-word, word-of-mouth |
| Main Entry: | word for word |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | using exactly the same words |
Synonyms: |
according to the letter, faithfully, in the same words, ipsissimis verbis, literally, literatim, strictly, to the letter, verbally, verbatim, verbatim et litteratim, word by word, word for word and letter for letter, word-perfectly |