accurate

English Online Dictionary. What means accurate‎? What does accurate mean?

English

Etymology

• First attested in the 1610's with the obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact".
• From Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect past participle of accūrō (“take care of”); from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + cūrō (“take care”), from cūra (“care”).
• Compare 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)