Accurate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ac=cu=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

Accurate, a. [L. accuratus, p. p. and a., fr. accurare to take care of; ad + curare to take care, cura care. See Cure.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.  [1913 Webster]

  "Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Correct; exact; just; nice; particular.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Accurate, adj.
1 careful, precise; lacking errors.
2 conforming exactly with the truth or with a given standard.

Derivative

accurately adv.

Etymology

L accuratus done carefully, past part. of accurare (as AC-, cura care)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Accurate

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.