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Exactly appropriate word
Answer for the clue "Exactly appropriate word ", 9 letters:
mot juste
Word definitions for mot juste in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The perfectly appropriate word or phrase for the situation.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Hence Channel One, a commercial satellite network serving, if that is the mot juste , 12,000 schools. ▪ The right word, le mot juste , he had recognized, can wound; can even kill.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the appropriate word or expression
Usage examples of mot juste.
That, or its French equivalent, was the word which would have leaped to the mind of the stylist Flaubert, always so careful in his search for the mot juste.
Hatch didn't qualify as the mot juste, either, because no architrave surrounded the hole in the wall.