HOW TO PRONOUNCE
accurately
/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/
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AK-yuh-rit-lee: start with a short, stressed a.
The double c supplies a k sound followed by a y glide. Keep the final “rit-lee” light; the ending does not contain the long ay of “rate.”
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“The instrument measured the distance accurately.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does accurately mean?
adverb
- In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæk.jə.ɹɪt.li/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ˈæk.jə.ɹət.li//ˈæk.jɚ.ɪt.li//ˈæk.jɚ.ət.li/
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I was not even capable of accurately remembering the number of the guests who had sat at the same table with me.
Could she ever have been free from the extraordinarily upsetting home conditions one could have gauged much more accurately her mental capabilities.
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In the last chapter we saw how the ordinary mercurial barometer can be used to ascertain fairly accurately the height of mountains.
Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results.
So long, indeed, as a wife knows her husband’s income accurately, she has a sure means of holding him to his oaths.