Synonyms of word for word

word for word

adverb

as in directly

in the same words

you don't have to record the professor's comments word for word in your notes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• directly
• accurately
• exactly
• verbatim
• ad verbum
• precisely
• literally
• identically

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• essentially
• virtually
• basically
• inexactly
• freely
• loosely
• carelessly
• inaccurately
• imprecisely

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of word for word

Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word. —Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025

Co-writer John Lutz also shared that Sawyer dictated all the Japanese dialogue to the cast members, who then repeated it back word for word. —Victoria Edel, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024

Allies of Ossoff said that this statement is not word for word but that Ossoff did iterate a similar message to Williams. —Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024

The responsibilities of a language translator go behind simply converting a written text, word for word, from one language to another. —Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024