accurate

/'ækjurit/

Thân thiện

The map provides an accurate representation of the country's coastline.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Correct in all details; free from error or defect: "Accurate" describes something that is exactly right, without mistakes, often as a result of careful effort.
   • Conforming exactly to a standard, truth, or fact: It indicates a high degree of precision and correctness, whether in measurement, description, or performance.

Usage

• Use "accurate" to describe information, measurements, descriptions, tools, or performances that are correct and precise.
• It often implies that care has been taken to achieve this correctness.
• Common collocations include: , , , , , .

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The journalist provided an accurate account of the event.
  • For the experiment to succeed, we need accurate measurements.
  • This map is remarkably accurate for its age.
  • Her prediction about the market trend proved to be accurate.

Advanced Usage

• "To be accurate to within...": Used to specify the degree or margin of precision.
  • The thermometer is accurate to within 0.1 degrees Celsius.
• "Historically accurate": Correct according to historical facts and details.
  • The film's costumes were praised for being historically accurate.

Variants and Related Words

• Accuracy (n): The quality or state of being correct or precise.
  • The accuracy of the data is crucial for our analysis.
• Accurately (adv): In a correct and precise manner.
  • He can accurately predict the weather.
• Inaccurate (adj): The opposite of accurate; not correct.
  • The report was based on inaccurate information.

Synonyms

• Precise: Marked by exactness and accuracy of detail.
• Exact: Correct in every detail; strictly accurate.
• Correct: Free from error; in accordance with fact or truth.
• True: In accordance with fact or reality.

Antonyms

• Inaccurate: Not accurate.
• Wrong: Not correct or true; mistaken.
• False: Not according with truth or fact; incorrect.
• Imprecise: Lacking exactness or accuracy.

Idioms and Phrases

• "To give an accurate picture of": To describe or represent something correctly.
  • The documentary aims to give an accurate picture of life in the region.
• "Accurate to a fault": Extremely or excessively accurate, sometimes to the point of being problematic.
  • His memory is accurate to a fault; he never forgets a single detail.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
   • a precise image
   • a precise measurement
2. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
   • an accurate reproduction
   • the accounting was accurate
   • accurate measurements
   • an accurate scale

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exact
• precise