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precise

adjective
  1. Clearly, fully, and sometimes emphatically expressed: categorical, clear, clear-cut, decided, definite, explicit, express, positive, specific, unambiguous, unequivocal. See clear
  2. Having no errors: accurate, correct, errorless, exact, right, rigorous. See correct, true
  3. Conforming to fact: accurate, correct, exact, faithful, right, rigorous, true, veracious, veridical. See correct, honest, real, true
  4. Strictly distinguished from others: exact, very. See precise
  5. Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form: bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, priggish, prim, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain

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