English

Adjective

accurate ‎(comparative accurater or more accurate, superlative accuratest or most accurate)

1. In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page x

     For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.

2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
3. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Bacon, (Please provide the title of the work):

     Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.

Usage notes

• We speak of a thing as correct with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a correct account, a correct likeness, a man of correct deportment.
• We speak of a thing as accurate with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an accurate statement, an accurate detail of particulars.
• We speak of a thing as exact with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an exact coincidence, the exact truth, an exact likeness.
• We speak of a thing as precise when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if cut down thereto; as a precise conformity instructions; precisely right; he was very precise in giving his directions.

Synonyms

• correct
• exact
• just
• nice
• particular

Antonyms

• inaccurate

Derived terms

• accuracy
• accurately

Translations

Anagrams

• carucate

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

accurate

1. Inflected form of accuraat

Italian

Adjective

accurate f pl

1. feminine plural of accurato

Anagrams

• cacature

Latin

Etymology

From accūrātus ‎(“elaborate, exact”)

Adverb

accūrātē ‎(comparable accūrātius, superlative accūrātissimē)

1. carefully, precisely, exactly

Related terms

• accūrātiō
• accūrātus
• accūrō

References

• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• accurate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “accurate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a carefully written book: liber accurate, diligenter scriptus
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)