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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of word for word

But the provision at issue repeats, word for word, the language that the Obama administration started using in federal court in March 2009 to delineate existing detention authority. —Carl Levin, Foreign Affairs, 15 Mar. 2012

To have people jumping and going crazy, singing the song word for word in all different parts of the United States. —Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 3 June 2024

When my parents went to their favorite soul food restaurant, the servers got a kick out of the 3-year-old who read the menu word for word. —Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2024

The trial is not televised nor is there live audio, so the transcripts provide the only way to read what is said in the courtroom, word for word. —Alan Feuer, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024