Meaning of not exactly | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not or no.
   not-comparable
2. Not quite; nearly.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“He is not exactly good-looking, but, on the contrary, extremely plain. He is not exactly good-tempered. He is not exactly steady or sober, or industrious, or even ambitious. He is, in fact, "ugly, irreligious, dissipated, ill-tempered."”

“"Those two," he said. "They don't seem exactly your sort⟳." "you mean⟳," said she, "they are not exactly yours."”

“Not exactly a red-letter day for gun safety.”

“Just bartending for a while and playing to sparse bar crowds with just his acoustic and a PA, although not exactly the best way to pad the retirement fund that he had blown during his fifteen seconds of fame or make⟳ your mark⟳ on the world, would have⟳ to do.”

“But even in French they are not exactly what we want⟳, not exactly the counterparts to the verbals like⟳ hunter.”

“For a start⟳, as the title of his first collection of short tales suggests, they are not exactly ghost stories, although most involve⟳ characters who in their own⟳ particular way are haunted.”

“Once again, the boundary is not exactly correct⟳. Some speakers would be better modelled by a somewhat lower boundary and others by a higher one.”

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