C2adverblanguagemedia
US/vərˈbeɪ.tɪm/
UK/vɜːˈbeɪ.tɪm/
repeating speech or writing word for word, with nothing changed or left out
In context
The newspaper printed the minister's speech verbatim on its front page.
Don't copy sentences verbatim from the internet; put them in your own words.
She could repeat the whole poem verbatim after hearing it only once.
Words that go with verbatim
verb + adverb
- quote verbatimJournalists must quote verbatim when they use quotation marks.
- copy verbatimTwo students copied the answer verbatim from the same website.
- repeat verbatimThe witness repeated verbatim what the driver had shouted.
- reproduced verbatimThe full email is reproduced verbatim below.
- recite verbatimMonks recite the sutras verbatim from memory.