inaccurate
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4.3
- adjective
- /ˌɪnˈækjərɪt/
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inexacto
- The government concedes that what Mueller said was inaccurate and you know, they don't say lie.
- inaccurate information
- inaccurate data
- misleading and inaccurate
And it all starts from that first inaccurate estimation of what's going on.
- And it all starts from that first inaccurate estimation of what's going on.
- That is that is so outrageously inaccurate and it's so insulting.
- If the biologist is inaccurate, it's because she's being misled.
- Those are all lies and and it's completely inaccurate framing of what happened here.
- So now their input, their perception is based off of inaccurate information.
- The government concedes that what Mueller said was inaccurate and you know, they don't say lie.
- And so we look at a very inaccurate and primitive measure of leverage.
- You're being fed information, visual information, that's actually inaccurate and untrue and perhaps random.
- As I just preface, no, that is completely inaccurate.
- More than half of the studies you read are inaccurate.
- But we do this all the time, and then we make incorrect or inaccurate attributions, right?
- Trump said that Chris Krebs's statement was highly inaccurate.
- What they're saying is true, but what you're doing is inaccurate.
Examples
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The common image of a deeply torn Israel is inaccurate, as social cohesion is now greater than before.
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His inaccurate calculations resulted in a significant financial loss for the company.
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It's extremely dangerous to talk with inaccurate information in such matters.
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But what he wrote was inaccurate.
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So now their input, their perception is based off of inaccurate information.
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Now today, we're operating with an inaccurate diagnosis of the racial problems in America.
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That's a common comment and it's very inaccurate, right.
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Tracking these events is crucial for identifying and understanding the origin of inaccurate data.
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One example is the wildly inaccurate analysis of the 1990 crisis with Iraq.
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The few accounts by Western traveling merchants were generally biased and inaccurate in their descriptions.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not correct according to the facts or the answer
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3.4
Thinking something is true when it is not
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1.4
A thing that has errors or does not follow rules
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6.7
Not correct because of a mistake
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3.5
Not correct because it has mistakes, for example in an argument or plan
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3.9
Nearly correct or exact but not completely
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6.5
Not accurate or correct
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5.5
Not exact or clear enough to be useful
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5.1
Not completely correct or exact
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7.1
Not accurate or correct
Full of mistakes that make it hard to understand
Not completely exact but close to the real value
Antonyms
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inaccurate comes from the prefix in- meaning 'not' and the word accurate meaning 'exact' or 'correct'. So, inaccurate simply means 'not exact', which is why we use it for things that have errors or mistakes.