letter-perfect
See also: letter perfect
English
Alternative forms
- letter perfect
Adjective
letter-perfect (not generally comparable, comparative more letter-perfect, superlative most letter-perfect)
- Exactly correct, correct in every letter.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "Can you quote it?" "I know my New Testament pretty well, but I am not letter-perfect."
- He was able to write out the speeches of Hamlet, letter perfect. It was impressive to see how exactly he knew the wording.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:meticulous
Antonyms
- unscrupulous
See also
- picture-perfect
- pitch-perfect