🇬🇧 Fidelity meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

"Fidelity" means how closely a copy matches the original. If you draw a picture of your cat and your drawing looks almost exactly like your real cat, your drawing has high fidelity. If you tell a story exactly the way it really happened, your story has high fidelity too. The higher the fidelity, the more accurate and detailed the copy is, like a super-precise echo of the real thing.

The recording of my sneeze had such extreme fidelity that when we played it back, the dog ran to hide under the couch again.

Our clay model of the solar system had low fidelity because somehow Jupiter ended up looking like a squished meatball.

Dad wanted a high-fidelity weather report, but all he got was, “Maybe rain, maybe sun, definitely homework.”

The narrator read the book with such fidelity that when the monster roared, three kids dropped their snacks in shock.

My friend claimed his drawing had photo-like fidelity, but the “self-portrait” looked like a pineapple in a wig.

An old printer copied a photograph. The man watched each print for fidelity, laid them side by side to judge fidelity, pointed out small differences, and adjusted settings to raise fidelity. The room fell quiet as the final sheet matched the original with fidelity; he breathed, touched the image, and felt steady joy at the fidelity.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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