Accurate vs Honest - What's the difference?
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In exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc.
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Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.
* Bacon
(of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.
* Sir W. Temple
(of a statement) True, especially as far as is known by the person making the statement; fair; unbiased.
In good faith; without malice.
(of a measurement device) Accurate.
Authentic; full.
Earned or acquired in a fair manner.
Open; frank.
(obsolete) Decent; honourable; suitable; becoming.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.
* (Ben Jonson)
Accurate is a related term of honest.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between accurate and honest
is that accurate is (obsolete) precisely fixed; executed with care; careful while honest is (obsolete) to adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.As adjectives the difference between accurate and honest
is that accurate is in exact or careful conformity to truth; the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate'' calculator; an ''accurate'' measure; ''accurate expression, knowledge, etc while honest is (of a person or institution) scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.As a verb honest is
(obsolete) to adorn or grace; to honour; to make becoming, appropriate, or honourable.accurate
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- For more than 90% of the figures (mostly drawn during 1976-1990), either a scale, or the given magnification, will allow the user to derive accurate measurements, even when these are lacking in the diagnosis.
- Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.
Usage notes
* We speak of a thing as correct' with reference to some rule or standard of comparison; as, a '''correct''' account, a '''correct''' likeness, a man of ' correct deportment. * We speak of a thing as accurate' with reference to the care bestowed upon its execution, and the increased correctness to be expected therefrom; as, an '''accurate''' statement, an ' accurate detail of particulars. * We speak of a thing as exact' with reference to that perfected state of a thing in which there is no defect and no redundancy; as, an '''exact''' coincidence, the '''exact''' truth, an ' exact likeness. * We speak of a thing as precise' when we think of it as strictly conformed to some rule or model, as if ''cut down'' thereto; as a '''precise''' conformity instructions; '''precisely''' right; he was very ' precise in giving his directions.Synonyms
* correct * exact * just * nice * particularAntonyms
* inaccurateDerived terms
* accuracy * accuratelyAnagrams
* ----honest
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- We're the most honest people you will ever come across.
- An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health.
- an honest''' account of events''; '''''honest reporting
- an honest mistake
- an honest scale
- an honest day's work
- an honest dollar
- an honest countenance
- Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!
- (Chaucer)
- Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* dishonestDerived terms
* honest as the day is long * honestyVerb
(en verb)- (Archbishop Sandys)
- You have very much honested my lodging with your presence.
