Meaning | conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy. |
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Examples | - "an accurate reproduction"
- "the accounting was accurate"
- "accurate measurements"
- "an accurate scale"
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Attribute of | accuracy, truth | The quality of being near to the true value |
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Narrower | close, faithful | marked by fidelity to an original |
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dead-on | accurate and to the point |
high-fidelity, hi-fi | Characterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction |
straight | In keeping with the facts |
surgical | Performed with great precision |
true, dead on target | accurately placed or thrown |
veracious, right | precisely accurate |
See also | correct, right | Free from error |
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exact | marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact |
precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited |
Opposite | inaccurate | not exact |
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Spanish | exacto, justo, preciso |
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Catalan | exacte, precís |
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Adverbs | accurately | with few mistakes |
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