to be precise

1. 1.

   in actual fact

   “properly speaking, they are not husband and wife”

   Synonymsproperly speakingstrictly speaking

Questions about to be precise

What does to be precise mean?

to be precise means "in actual fact".

What is another word for to be precise?

Close synonyms include properly speaking, strictly speaking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is to be precise a common word?

to be precise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.