exact
pronunciation
How to pronounce exact in British English:
UK [ɪɡˈzækt]
How to pronounce exact in American English:
US [ɪɡˈzækt]
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- Verb:
- claim as due or just
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
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- Adjective:
- marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
Word Origin
- exact
- exact: [15] The adjective exact ‘precise’ and the verb exact ‘demand with severity’ have undergone considerable semantic divergence over the centuries, but they both go back to the same source, the Latin verb exigere (from which English also got essay, examine, exigent [15], and exiguous [17]). This, a compound of the prefix ex- ‘out’ and agere ‘lead, drive’ (source of English act and agent), meant originally ‘drive out’, but in due course it developed the metaphorical senses ‘demand’ (preserved in the English verb), ‘weigh accurately’, and ‘bring to completion or perfection’.These last two were taken up adjectivally in the Latin past participle exactus, from which English gets exact.=> act, agent, essay, examine
- exact (adj.)
- "precise, rigorous, accurate," 1530s, from Latin exactus "precise, accurate, highly finished," past participle adjective from exigere "demand, require, enforce," literally "to drive or force out," also "finish, measure," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + agere "drive, lead, act" (see act (n.)).
- exact (v.)
- mid-15c., from Latin exactus, past participle of exigere "require, enforce, demand, collect (money);" see exact (adj.). Older in English than the adjective and retaining the literal sense of the Latin source. Related: Exacted; exacting.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Nobody knows the exact number of polar bears .
- 2. However , exact income is hard to gauge .
- 3. Let them hear those exact words from your lips .
- 4. All energy and power systems exact a toll .
- 5. The company-which provided funding for tesla-won 't give exact numbers but admits to an eight-figure investment in switch .