accurate
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from cure
- derived from accurate Borrowed from Latin accūrātus
Definitions
Telling the truth or giving a true result
Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
- an accurate calculator
- an accurate measure
- accurate knowledge
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target
On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
- an accurate pass
- an accurate shot
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Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
- an accurate marksman
- an accurate shooter
Precisely fixed
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
The neighborhood
- synonymcorrect
- synonymexact
- synonymjust
- synonymnice
- synonymparticular
- antonyminaccurate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at accurate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at accurate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at accurate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA