Accurate \Ac"cu*rate\, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr.
accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura
care. See Cure.]
1. In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some
standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free
from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate
calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression,
knowledge, etc.
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2. Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful. [Obs.]
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Those conceive the celestial bodies have more
accurate influences upon these things below.
--Bacon.
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Syn: Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.
Usage: Accurate, Correct, Exact, Precise. 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
redundance; 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
accurate
adj 1: conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a
standard or performing with total accuracy; "an
accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate";
"accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale" [ant: inaccurate]
2: (of ideas, images, representations, expressions)
characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ;
strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise
measurement" [syn: exact, precise]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "accurate":
OK, absolute, all right, appreciative, attentive, authentic,
careful, close, conscientious, correct, critical, dead right,
delicate, demanding, dependable, detailed, differential,
discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive,
distinguishing, exact, exacting, exigent, exquisite, fastidious,
faultless, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, flawless, fussy,
just, just right, letter-perfect, meticulous, minute, narrow, nice,
okay, on the mark, particular, perfect, precise, precisianistic,
precisionistic, proper, punctilious, punctual, refined, reliable,
religious, right, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, scrutinizing,
selective, sensitive, straight, straight-up-and-down, strict,
subtle, tactful, unerring
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
exact, precise
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