accurately

adverb

ac·​cu·​rate·​ly ˈa-kyə-rət-lē 

ˈa-k(ə-)rət-, 

ˈa-k(y)ərt-

: in an accurate manner : without mistakes or errors

It is very difficult to predict the weather accurately.

The book's title does not accurately reflect its subject.

For the first time, Europeans could accurately visualize their continent in a way that enabled them to improvise new navigational routes instead of simply going from point to point.

—Julie Rehmeyer

Examples of accurately in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gravity is notoriously difficult to measure accurately for three reasons, said Christian Rothleitner, a physicist at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany’s National Metrology Institute, who was not involved in the research. —Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 7 May 2026

The council recommends shifting some flood insurance policies to private insurance companies, and moving faster to map flood risk accurately across the country, so that fewer homes are in harm's way. —Lauren Sommer, NPR, 7 May 2026

In turn, this helps researchers more accurately reproduce the observable universe. —Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 6 May 2026

Or, more accurately, Candace Bushnell and Helen Fielding. —Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 4 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1581, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for accurately

• inaccurately