Definition: 1. Indicating exactness or preciseness. 2. In a precise manner. 3. Just as it should be.
Use 'precisely' in a sentence:
1. "All I did was write the truth."—"Precisely! Now everyone knows."
2. Precisely. That's just what I had tried to talk her round.
3. That's precisely what I don't want you to do.
4. It is precisely this inverted snobbery that has hindered Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits from gaining the critical attention it deserves.
5. The team, who struggled early, came on like gangbusters at precisely the right time.
6. Karl Barth described midlife precisely this way.
7. Precisely, that's just what I think too.
8. The meeting starts at 2 o'clock precisely.
9. It's precisely because I care about you that I don't like you staying out late.
10. It is precisely in the particularity of contradiction that the universality of contradiction resides.
11. You are precisely the person I'm looking for.
12. More difficult, in the moment, is discerning precisely how these lean times are affecting society's character.
13. That is precisely the result the system is designed to produce.
14. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better decisions.
15. A word of warning. Don't stick too precisely to what it says in the book.
16. The meeting began at precisely 4.00 p.m.
17. 'Did you find yourself wondering what went wrong?' — 'Precisely.'
18. Directionally, they capture the trends, but the idea that we know precisely how many are unemployed is a myth.
19. That was precisely my own view.
20. Don't stick too precisely to what it says in the book.
21. They could precisely describe the location of a star by indicating its position in one of those imaginary boxes.
22. Knowing precisely when you recommended, ordered, signed or asked about something often is crucial.
23. They look precisely the same to me.
24. It's precisely because very few people know about it that we must publicise it.
25. It is precisely such ignorant people who take Marxism-Leninism as a religious dogma.
26. "We'd like to try this on," she'd say carefully, uttering her words precisely and properly.
27. That is precisely what I came out of college thinking I was supposed to do.
28. For the bulk of our species' approximately 200,000 year lifespan, we had no means of precisely representing quantities.
29. 'Precisely what other problems do you perceive?' she asked.
30. Precisely because of this masculine orientation, revising the frontier thesis by focusing on women's experience introduces new themes into women's history.
31. The syllabus prescribes precisely which books should be studied.
32. Unlike fashion's embrace of playful dissimulation and seduction, this beauty practice instead insists on correcting precisely measured flaws.
33. The problem is due to discipline, or, more precisely, the lack of discipline, in schools.
34. The cause of the disease is difficult to pin down precisely.
35. Our objectives need to be precisely delineated.
36. Without numbers, healthy human adults struggle to precisely distinguish and recall quantities as low as four.
37. Many children are rented and that is precisely what we hope to punish.
38. Oddly enough, that is precisely what I intend.
39. Children come to zoos precisely to see captive animals.
40. We may have to agree that the noble Lord is not precisely a nonpareil as a departmental minister.
41. That's precisely what I meant.
42. What precisely triggered off yesterday's riot is still unclear.
43. Breakfast television arrived in British life precisely a decade ago.
44. The best argument for efficiency is its cost—or, more precisely, its profitability.
45. Nobody knows precisely how many people are still living in the camp.
46. She pronounced the word very slowly and precisely.
47. But the United Nations climate panel's latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite.
48. It's not clear precisely how the accident happened.
49. I think we can date the decline of Western Civilization quite precisely.
