Meaning of not exactly | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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