Word Meanings - PRECISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

praecidere to cut off in front, to cut off; prae before + caedere to 1. Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality. The law in this point is

Additional info about word: PRECISE

praecidere to cut off in front, to cut off; prae before + caedere to 1. Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality. The law in this point is not precise. Bacon. For the hour precise Exacts our parting hence. Milton. 2. Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious. Addison. He was ever precise in promise-keeping. Shak. Syn. -- Accurate; exact; definite; correct; scrupulous; punctilious; particular; nice; formal. See Accurate. -- Pre*cise"ly, adv. -- Pre*cise"ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRECISE)

• Accurate
• Careful
• exact
• faithful
• precise
• correct
• close
• truthful
• strict
• just
• actual
• nice
• Ceremonious
• Punctilious
• formal
• prim
• Definite
• Clear
• specified
• determined
• definitive
• restricted
• specific
• certain
• ascertained
• fixed
• limited
• bounded
• positive
• Formal
• Regular
• complete
• shapely
• sufficient
• stately
• dignified
• ceremonious
• pompous
• stiff
• explicit
• affected
• methodical
• Particular
• Local
• subordinate
• detailed
• partial
• special
• fastidious
• minute
• scrupulous
• careful
• accurate
• circumstantial
• delicate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRECISE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract
• Spare
• falsify
• corrupt

Related words: (words related to PRECISE)

• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.