Punctual

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Acting or arriving exactly at the time appointed; prompt.
  • adj. Paid or accomplished at or by the appointed time.
  • adj. Precise; exact.
  • adj. Confined to or having the nature of a point in space.
  • adj. Linguistics Of, related to, or being the verbal aspect that expresses momentary action or action considered as having no temporal duration.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. prompt or on time
  • adj. Existing as a point or series of points
  • adj. Expressing momentary action that has no duration
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.
  • adj. Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.
  • adj. Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of a point; being a point.
  • Exact; precise; nice.
  • Exact or prompt in action or in the observance of time, the keeping of appointments, engagements, etc.
  • Prompt; at the exact or stipulated time: as, punctual payment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed
  • Equivalent
    timely    prompt   
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    unextended    punctilious    precise    prompt    read   
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