Usually means: Precisely accurate, completely correct alignment.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead-on: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead-on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead on: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead-on: Vocabulary.com
  6. dead-on: Wordnik
  7. dead-on, dead on: Wiktionary
  8. dead-on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dead-on: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dead-on, dead on: Dictionary.com
  11. dead-on: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dead-on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dead-on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead on: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead on: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead on)

▸ adjective:  Very accurate.
▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) Exactly at.

Similar:
accurate, superaccurate, dead-nuts, hyperaccurate, deadass, overaccurate, bang on, bang on the money, dead, hyperrealistic, more...

Opposite:
off-target, inaccurate, imprecise, incorrect, wrong

Types:
accurate, precise, correct, right, exact, more...

Phrases:
dead on target, dead on arrival, dead on feet, dead on one's feet, dead on ones feet, more...

Adjectives:
plain, point blank, so-so, direct, just, right, right-down, clean, sheer, straight-out



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Similar:
accurate, superaccurate, dead-nuts, hyperaccurate, deadass, overaccurate, bang on, bang on the money, dead, hyperrealistic, more...

Opposite:
off-target, inaccurate, imprecise, incorrect, wrong

Types:
accurate, precise, correct, right, exact, more...

Phrases:
dead on target, dead on arrival, dead on feet, dead on one's feet, dead on ones feet, Dead Man on Campus, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round, Dead Bees on a Cake, Dead Set on Life, dead set on, dead on your feet, more...

Adjectives:
plain, point blank, so-so, direct, just, right, right-down, clean, sheer, straight-out



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