not accurate; not correct; not exact; in error
adjective
The definition of inaccurate is something incorrect or wrong.
An example of inaccurate is the belief that the earth is flat.
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inaccurate
adjective
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
Related Forms:
- in·ac′cu·rate·ly
adverb
- in·ac′cu·rate·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more inaccurate, superlative most inaccurate)
Origin
In- equivalent of un- + accurate.
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Sentence Examples
- If this is inaccurate or incomplete, the Government cannot blame the newspapers.
- His book is, however, inaccurate and grossly partial.
- It is often inaccurate, and it abounds in farfetched conceits and odd and pedantic features.
- The address of the clergy, inspired by the great prelates, sought to make inaccurate lamentations over the progress of impiety a means of safeguarding their enormous spiritual and temporal powers, their privileges and exemptions, and their vast wealth.
- Michelet's wonderful depiction in his Histoire de France (livres 13 to 17) has never teen surpassed for graphic word-painting, but it is inaccurate in details, and superseded in scholarship. Of the original sources for the reign the Lettres de Louis XI.
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WORDS NEAR inaccurate IN THE DICTIONARY
- inaccurate
- inaccordant
- inaccrochable
- inaccuracies