English
Etymology
From precise + -ly.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈsaɪsli/
- Hyphenation: pre‧cise‧ly
Adverb
precisely (comparative more precisely, superlative most precisely)
- (manner) In a precise manner; exactly.
- Synonyms: exactly, incisively; see also Thesaurus:exactly
- Antonym: imprecisely
I always try to express myself precisely.
2024 August 19, David French, “David French on the Pro-Life Case for Kamala Harris”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 19 August 2024:He says he will vote against Donald Trump “precisely because I’m conservative.”
2025 June 18, “UNITED STATES v. SKRMETTI, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND REPORTER FOR TENNESSEE, ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States[2], page 47:Thus, “[t]he number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known.”
- (focus) Used to provide emphasis.
Derived terms
Translations
in a precise manner
- Arabic: بِدِقَّة (bidiqqa)
- Bulgarian: точно (bg) (točno), прецизно (bg) (precizno)
- Catalan: precisament (ca)
- Danish: præcist
- Dutch: precies (nl)
- Esperanto: precize
- Estonian: täpselt
- Finnish: tarkalleen (fi), täsmälleen (fi), tarkasti (fi), tarkkaan (fi), täsmällisesti (fi)
- French: précisément (fr)
- Galician: precisamente
- German: präzise (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌱𐌰 (glaggwaba)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀκριβῶς (akribôs), ἀτρεκέως (atrekéōs)
- Hindi: यथार्थतः (hi) (yathārthataḥ), यथावत् (hi) (yathāvat), ठीक (hi) (ṭhīk), ठीक-ठीक (ṭhīk-ṭhīk)
- Hungarian: pontosan (hu)
- Italian: precisamente (it), esattamente (it)
- Latin: ad unguem, adeō (la), examussim
- Macedonian: точно (točno)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: presist, nøyaktig (no)
- Nynorsk: presist
- Polish: precyzyjnie (pl), dokładnie (pl)
- Portuguese: precisamente (pt), justamente (pt), exatamente (pt)
- Romanian: precis (ro), precizamente (ro) (rare)
- Russian: то́чно (ru) (tóčno)
- Serbo-Croatian: tačno (sh), тачно
- Spanish: precisamente (es), a rajatabla
- Swedish: precis (sv)
- Yiddish: דווקא (dafke)
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