Answer
Match
Match verb - To be the exact counterpart of.
How words are described
| best | best answer | best match |
| long | long answer | long match |
| exact | exact answer | exact match |
| better | better answer | better match |
| Other adjectives: typical, perfect, true, proper, straight, single, actual, real, big, bad, quick, final, official, next, last, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: In one game, Pat Morita writes an answer in Japanese and Gene demands the judges deem it a match or not.
Source: Series / Match Game - Boyfriend doesn't want to take "no" for an answer, but she's saved by Fooker (who, unknown to her at the time, was a government operative and more than a match for the larger boyfriend).
Source: Date Rape Averted - When he evades the question, by implying Satomi could possibly be a match for even her, she bitchslaps him and tells him the answer to both, is "no".
Source: Characters / Variable Geo
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Match and Answer. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/answer/match
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Match or Answer. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/answer/match.
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