exact

Verb

Verb Forms: exacted, exacting, exacts

• To demand and obtain something, especially a payment.
• claim as due or just
• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
• 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; to visit.

Adjective

• Precise, accurate, and correct in every detail.
• marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
  • "an exact mind"
  • "an exact copy"
  • "hit the exact center of the target"

Adjective Satellite

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

Adj

• 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 each morphism is the image of the preceding one.
• Such that it preserves short exact sequences.

Adv

• exactly

Examples

• a man exact in observing an appointment
• an exact copy of a letter
• exact accounts
• He paid the exact debt.
• In my doings I was exact.
• Playing ’QUIZ’ would EXACT a high score from my opponent on the triple-word square.
• She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!
• The clock keeps exact time.
• to exact revenge on someone
• to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
• To win at Scrabble, one must be EXACT with word placement and score calculation.

Synonyms

accurate, claim, demand, precise, take, accurately, correct, exactly, just, perfect, precisely, spot on, strict, true

Antonyms

inexact, approximate, imprecise, loose

Anagrams of exact