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dead on

dead on adjective: very accurate.

Adjective

dead on (not comparable)

  1. Very accurate.
    • Her Sarah Palin impersonation is dead on!

Adverb

dead on (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Exactly at.
    • The train arrived dead on 2 o'clock.

dead on meaning in Kannada

dead on in Kannada

ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪವೂ ತಪ್ಪಿಲ್ಲದೆ

Forms of dead on

alternative formdead-on

Questions about dead on

What does dead on mean?
Dead on means very accurate.
What is dead on in Kannada?
Dead on in Kannada is ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪವೂ ತಪ್ಪಿಲ್ಲದೆ. See Dead on meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is dead on?
Dead on can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near dead on in the dictionary

  1. dead nuts
  2. dead of night
  3. dead of winter
  4. dead oil
  5. dead oils
  6. dead on
  7. dead on arrival
  8. dead on one's feet
  9. dead on the vine
  10. dead or alive
  11. dead pan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dead on (page history and authors); dead on (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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