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præcise

præcise is the obsolete spelling of precise.

Meaning of precise

Adjective

precise (comparative more precise or preciser, superlative most precise or precisest)

  1. (broadly) Both exact and accurate.
    • precise definition
    Antonyms:
    inexact, imprecise
  2. (strictly) Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value).
  3. Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.

See all 4 meanings of precise

Forms of præcise

comparativemore præcise
superlativemost præcise

Words formed from præcise

Questions about præcise

What is præcise the obsolete spelling of?
Præcise is the obsolete spelling of precise.

Words near præcise in the dictionary

  1. præcipices
  2. præcipitate
  3. præcipitated
  4. præcipitates
  5. præcipitating
  6. præcise
  7. præcisely
  8. præclude
  9. præcluded
  10. præcludes
  11. præcluding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præcise (page history and authors); precise (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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