Vocabulary
Precisely
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
exactly (used to emphasize the complete accuracy or truth of a statement).
Urdu meaning
صحیح، ٹھیک ٹھاک
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
- One big reason why change is so hard to bring about in this country is precisely because large swathes of it operate in the dark, in the sense that there is no transparency.
- This is precisely what many students in Pakistan can expect from joint academic programmes springing up in fields like software technology, drone applications, agriculture, medical laboratory and pharmacy.
- Moreover, Xi Jinping told Modi precisely that during their meeting at a retreat in Tamil Nadu.
- To pretend regulation is optional is to invite precisely what critics fear most, and should be feared: fraud, scams and money laundering (we know how that goes).
- But one thing that our rulers have proven themselves adept at pulling off time and again is precisely this sort of geopolitical high-wire act.
Synonyms
exactly, prompt, sharp, promptly, on the dot; dead (on),
Antonyms
slightly,vaguely, somewhat
Curator example
“at 2.00 precisely, the phone rang”
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About this vocabulary section.
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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