spot-on

American  

[spot-on, awn] / ˈspɒtˈɒn, ˈɔn /

Or spot on

adjective

1. exactly right or accurate.

   His spot-on impression of the popular politician had us all laughing.

   Thanks go to our colleague, whose analysis of the situation was spot on.

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spot-on British  

adjective

1. informal absolutely correct; very accurate

   your prediction was spot-on

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Etymology

Origin of spot-on

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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spot-on

She added government-funded research showed that pollution is still happening when owners were applying spot-on treatments correctly, so the current advice on application was wrong, as was failing to advise against preventative treatment.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

"It was a challenging prediction, and we had to be spot-on," Barat says.

From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026

Yet even if you were spot-on with your trading, a passive buy-and-hold stock portfolio still did better than your active one by 1 annualized percentage point between 1948 and 2018, according to Deluard.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 29, 2026

My uprock was the best it’d ever been; my six-step was spot-on, and I dropped into a crab walk that morphed, briefly, into a cricket.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi