exact

exact is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
2. adjective. Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
3. adjective. Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
4. adjective. To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
5. intransitive verb. To practice exaction.
6. verb. take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

   "the accident claimed three lives"

   "The hard work took its toll on her"

   Synonyms: claim, take

7. verb. claim as due or just

   "The bank demanded payment of the loan"

   Synonyms: demand

8. adjective. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct

   "a precise image"

   "a precise measurement"

   Synonyms: accurate, precise

9. adjective. marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

   "an exact mind"

   "an exact copy"

Synonyms

claim, take, demand, accurate, precise

Common word forms

exacts, exacted, exacter, exactly, exactest, exacting, exactable, exactment, exactness

Words from these letters

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