ACCURATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does accurate mean?
• ACCURATE (adjective)
The adjective ACCURATE has 2 senses:
1. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
Familiarity information: ACCURATE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ACCURATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
Context examples:
an accurate reproduction / the accounting was accurate / accurate measurements / an accurate scale
Similar:
dead on target; true (accurately placed or thrown)
veracious (precisely accurate)
straight (right; in keeping with the facts)
surgical (performed with great precision)
hi-fi; high-fidelity (characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction)
dead-on (accurate and to the point)
close; faithful (marked by fidelity to an original)
Also:
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
exact (marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact)
Attribute:
accuracy; truth (the quality of being near to the true value)
Antonym:
inaccurate (not accurate)
Meaning:
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct
Synonyms:
accurate; exact; precise
Context examples:
a precise image / a precise measurement
Similar:
correct; right (free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth)
