| 单词 | not exactly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot exactly e. not exactly: used ironically for ‘not at all; by no means’. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adverb] > by no means no waya1400 in no sauce1542 for love or money?1576 nil1581 nohow1775 not exactly1893 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [adverb] > by any means or at all > by no means or not at all naughteOE not exactly1893 no what1900 1893 C. M. Yonge & C. R. Coleridge Strolling Players xxxii. 292 I wasn't exactly going to send in my checks this time. 1905 A. Lang Adv. among Bks. 222 Though some of our modern novelists think it coarse and degrading, Hawthorne did not think so, and they are not exactly better artists than Hawthorne. 1949 M. Muggeridge Affairs of Heart vii. 125 She was not exactly pretty even then. In fact, she was not pretty at all—which is what the use of the word ‘exactly’ usually signifies. 1964 E. Ambler Kind of Anger vi. 169 ‘And you're not laughing?’ ‘I'm not exactly bursting my sides, no.’ 1968 Win 15 Oct. 16/1 Yeah, I'm scared out of my mind. The thought of prison doesn't exactly excite me. < as lemmas |
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