How many syllables in Exact
Word
Exact
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
ex-act
Definition
- a. - Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth;
perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any
respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he
paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
- a. - Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a
promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing
an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
- a. - Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
- a. - To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield
or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; --
followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to
exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
- v. i. - To practice exaction.
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