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