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verbatim

verbatim

1 6.0
Using exactly the same words as were first said
  • adverb
  • /vɜrˈbeɪtɪm/
translation icon : textualmente
  • He repeated the instructions verbatim so that everyone understood them clearly.

And then she asked the wife repeat verbatim what he just said.

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Examples

  • And I will promise you that the majority of exam questions will come verbatim from this package of problems.

  • This is exactly what happened verbatim, real time.

  • This is you verbatim from an interview that you did.

  • You can swipe these files verbatim and use them yourself.

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  • And so I'm just going to read verbatim what she said in response to Ryan's question.

  • And this text is, as it turns out, verbatim, word for word, Cervantes Don Quixote.

  • The lawyer presented the witness's statement verbatim to ensure accuracy in the case.

  • She quoted the passage verbatim from the book to support her argument.

Synonyms

word for word
vsverbatim
27 3.5

Using exactly the same words as the original

is the single-word form used instead of a multiword phrase
literatim
vsverbatim
  • Archaic
9.9

In exactly the same words without any change

is stricter only at the word level rather than matching letters

How Accurate

verbatim
1 6.0
exact
901 3.2
faithful
24 3.2
approximate
29 3.9
inexact
5 5.1

Surface Forms

verbatim positive

Etymology

Verbatim comes from the Latin verbum ('word') and is like the English word verb. It originally meant 'word by word', so to repeat something verbatim is to give the exact same words.