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adverb / adjective

verbatim

ver-BAY-tim/vɝbˈeɪtʌm/

Using exactly the same words.

The second speaker repeats the first speaker's words verbatim.

Two facing speakers have precisely identical patterned speech ribbons, matching shapes in identical order, no text.
Etymology
verbLatinword
+atimLatindistributive adverb ending

The word base and distributive ending give the image “word for word.” Applied to a quotation or transcription, this means preserving the original wording exactly, not merely conveying its meaning.

In context

TED9:07
When my neurologist gave me that diagnosis in 2012, he was echoing Freud's words verbatim
What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose | Jennifer Brea

More examples

  • She repeated his instructions verbatim.
  • The transcript preserves a verbatim account of the exchange.
  • Do not present a paraphrase as a verbatim quotation.

Forms

verbatim

Similar words

exactly
Exactly can describe any precise match; verbatim specifically concerns the words used.
word for word
Word for word means using the identical words, as verbatim does.