Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
an accurate calculator
Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.
First attested in the 1610's with the now obsolete sense "done with care", and from the 1650's with the sense "precise, exact". Borrowed from Latin accūrātus (“done with care”), perfect passive partic...
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