accurate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

   an accurate reproduction

2. 2
   adj

   Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.

   an accurate calculator

3. 3
   adj

   Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

   My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.

4. 4
   adj

   On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.

   an accurate pass

5. 5
   adj

   Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.

   an accurate marksman

6. 6
   adj

   Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

   for that is the fume of those, that conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below, than indeed they have

7. 7
   adj

   (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-der. Proto-Italic *kʷoizā Latin cūra Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cūrō Latin accūrō Latin accūrātusbor. English accurate Borrowed from Latin accūrātus, perfect passive participle of accūrō (“to take care of”), from ad- + cūrō. First attested in 1610. Compare English cure.