verbatim

¹ver·ba·tim

adv \(ˌ)vər-ˈbā-təm\

Definition of VERBATIM

: in the exact words : word for word <quoted the speech verbatim>

Examples of VERBATIM

1. <you can't just copy the encyclopedia article verbatim for your report—that's plagiarism>
2. The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. —Sally B. Donnelly et al., Time, 20 Mar. 2006
3. Around his eleventh year he compiled a sort of commonplace book in which he transcribed passages from his reading. … But these entries aren't rendered verbatim: [Arthur] Rimbaud expands and contracts his sources, plays with lines, exhibiting a very early, very organic sort of literary criticism. —Wyatt Mason, Harper's, October 2002
4. “My own anxieties about mortality are tempered just slightly,” says [Ken] Burns (quoting, almost verbatim, his introduction to “Jazz's” companion coffee-table book), “by the notion that if we continue to try hard, we'll have a chance to hear Louis blow Gabriel out of the clouds.” —David Gates, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2001
5. Some passages in the book are taken verbatim from the blog … —Publishers Weekly, 13 June 2005

Origin of VERBATIM

Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin verbum word

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to VERBATIM

Synonyms: ad verbum, directly, exactly, word for word

Antonyms: inexactly

Related Words: accurately, precisely; identically; literally

Near Antonyms: basically, essentially, virtually; carelessly, freely, imprecisely, inaccurately, loosely

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Rhymes with VERBATIM

pomatum, sense-datum, substratum