Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Accurate information, measurements, and statistics are correct to a very detailed level. An ~ instrument is able to give you information of this kind.
Police have stressed that this is the most ~ description of the killer to date...
Quartz timepieces are very ~, to a minute or two per year.
= precise
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~ly
The test can ~ly predict what a bigger explosion would do.
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2.
An ~ statement or account gives a true or fair judgment of something.
Joseph Stalin gave an ~ assessment of the utility of nuclear weapons...
They were ~ in their prediction that he would change her life drastically.
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~ly
What many people mean by the word ‘power’ could be more ~ly described as ‘control’.
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3.
You can use ~ to describe the results of someone’s actions when they do or copy something correctly or exactly.
Marks were given for ~ spelling and punctuation.
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An ~ weapon or throw reaches the exact point or target that it was intended to reach. You can also describe a person as ~ if they fire a weapon or throw something in this way.
The rifle was extremely ~...
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~ly
...the technology to aim bombs ~ly from aircraft.
= precisely
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