accurately
Anything done accurately is done correctly or with very few mistakes. Many things should be performed accurately, especially brain surgery.
When you're accurate, you're precise: you get things right. To do something accurately is to do it in a precise, correct, careful manner. A baseball player with a good batting average hits the ball accurately. An accountant who never makes mistakes juggles the numbers accurately. If you got 100 on a test, you performed accurately. The opposite of this word is inaccurately, which means you did something wrong, incorrectly, or with a lot of mistakes.
Definitions of accurately
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strictly correctly“repeated the order accurately”
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with few mistakes“he works very accurately”antonyms:inaccuratelyin an inaccurate manner
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ly
This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns adjectives into adverbs.
