Synonyms of smack-dab

smack-dab

adverb

ˈsmak-ˈdab 

as in right

as stated or indicated without the slightest difference

made reservations at a restaurant that's smack-dab in the center of town

Synonyms & Similar Words

• right
• just
• squarely
• sharp
• precisely
• due
• exactly
• on the nose
• full
• on the button

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of smack-dab

Two plays later, in that same game, safeties Hufanga and Brandon Jones ran smack-dab into each other and dropped another easy would-be interception from New York quarterback Jaxson Dart. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 9 June 2026

The president is set to give an address updating Americans on the Iran war on the evening of April 1, right smack-dab in the middle of primetime TV. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026

And Illinois is smack-dab in the middle of the largest market in the world. — Jim Nowlan, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026

Katharine's first professional home was the third floor of Building 5, a seven-story brick edifice lined with wide windows smack-dab in the middle of the GE factory. — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026