Accurate meaning

What does “accurate” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“accurate” is an adjective with 2 meanings. Its most common meaning is: conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy.

accurate

adjective

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

    “an accurate reproduction”

    “the accounting was accurate”

    Oppositesinaccurate
  2. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

    “a precise image”

    “a precise measurement”

    Synonymsexactprecise

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University