accurate

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English

Etymology

First attested in the 1610's with the now obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".

Borrowed from Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect passive participle of accūrō (“take care of”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Compare English cure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.jʊ.ɹət/, /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.ə.ɹət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, /ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt/, /ˈæk.jɚ.ət/

Adjective

accurate (comparative more accurate, superlative most accurate)

1. Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty
2. Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

3. (obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

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

Translations

Anagrams

• carucate

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

accurate

1. inflection of accuraat:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

Interlingua

Adjective

accurate (comparative plus accurate, superlative le plus accurate)

1. accurate

Related terms

• accuratia

Italian

Adjective

accurate f pl

1. feminine plural of accurato

Anagrams

• cacature

Latin

Etymology

From accūrātus (“elaborate, exact”).

Adverb

accūrātē (comparative 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
• accurate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)