Accurate vs. Meticulous — What's the Difference?

(especially of information, measurements, or predictions) correct in all details; exact

Showing or acting with extreme care and concern for details.

(with reference to a weapon, missile, or shot) capable of or successful in reaching the intended target

(Archaic) Excessively careful and precise.

Conforming exactly to fact; errorless.

Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details.

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits from a standard.

(archaic) Timid, fearful, overly cautious.

Capable of providing a correct reading or measurement

Timid; fearful.

Acting or performing with care and precision; meticulous

Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship.

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

Marked by precise accordance with details;

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

Marked by extreme care in treatment of details;

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;