PRECISE
Dictionary entry overview: What does precise mean?
• PRECISE (adjective)
The adjective PRECISE has 2 senses:
1. sharply exact or accurate or delimited
2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
Familiarity information: PRECISE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PRECISE (adjective)
Meaning:
Sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Context examples:
a precise mind / specified a precise amount / arrived at the precise moment
Similar:
pinpoint (meticulously precise)
on the button; on the nose (being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion)
nice; skillful (done with delicacy and skill)
microscopic (extremely precise with great attention to details)
meticulous; punctilious (marked by precise accordance with details)
finespun; hairsplitting (developed in excessively fine detail)
fine (minutely precise especially in differences in meaning)
dead (unerringly accurate)
very (precisely as stated)
Also:
specific ((sometimes followed by 'to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique)
exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)
distinct (easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined)
accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)
Antonym:
imprecise (not precise)
Meaning:
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
Synonyms:
accurate; exact; precise
Context examples:
a precise image / a precise measurement
Similar:
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
