Word
verbatim
Phoneticsver·ba·tim
US/vɝˈbeɪtəm/
UK/vɜːbˈeɪtɪm/
Definitions
01word for word
adv. in exactly the same words as were used originally.
adv. in a manner that follows the original source word for word, without paraphrase or alteration.
“The student copied the paragraph verbatim from the website without giving credit.”
“The witness was asked to repeat the conversation verbatim, though she admitted her memory of the specific phrasing was beginning to fade.”
Formal
Usage
Typically follows the verb it modifies, such as 'repeat', 'copy', or 'quote'.
02exactly matching
adj. describing a piece of writing or speech that is an exact copy of the original.
adj. corresponding exactly with the original source; non-gradable.
“The newspaper published a verbatim report of the president's speech.”
“The legal team required a verbatim transcript of the deposition to identify any inconsistencies in the testimony.”
Formal
Usage
Usually placed before the noun it describes.
Antonyms
Real-World Examples
“Beveridge’s words are spoken verbatim by actor Simon Callow.” “Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim.” “Transformers, the workhorses of current LLMs, have eidetic (verbatim) memory “in context”, but only until tokens slide out of context.” “Consider the case of a language model which verbatim memorizes text.” Etymology
Attested in English since 1481 (therefore considered a Middle English derivation by some): from Medieval Latin verbātim (“word for word”), from Latin verbum (“word”) + -ātim (adverbial suffix).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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