Inaccurate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inaccurate \In*ac"cu*rate\, a.
     Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; not quite
     correct; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man,
     narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.
  
     Note: The term inaccurate is usually used when an assertion


           or result is near to the truth, but not exactly, or has
           some basis for belief; however, it is sometimes used as
           a gentle euphemism for wrong even if the error is
           flagrant.
           [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
                 The expression is plainly inaccurate. --Bp. Hurd.
  
     Syn: Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect;
          incomplete; defective.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inaccurate
       adj 1: not accurate; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer
              is inaccurate" [ant: {accurate}]
       2: not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation" [syn: {inexact}]
       3: containing or characterized by error; "erroneous
          conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate" [syn: {erroneous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "inaccurate":
     adulterated, aleatoric, aleatory, all wet, amiss, amorphous,
     approximate, approximative, awry, blemished, blobby, blurred,
     blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, cold, confused, damaged,
     defective, deficient, disordered, erroneous, fallacious, fallible,
     false, faulty, flawed, foggy, found wanting, fuzzy, general, hazy,
     hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illogical, immature, impaired, imperfect,
     imprecise, impure, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incomplete,
     incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable,
     indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, lacking, lax, loose, makeshift,
     mediocre, mistaken, mixed, negligent, nonspecific, not perfect,
     obscure, off, orderless, out of line, out of plumb, out of square,
     out of true, partial, patchy, random, shadowed forth, shadowy,
     shapeless, short, sketchy, specious, stochastic, sweeping, unclear,
     unconscientious, uncritical, undefined, undestined, undetermined,
     undeveloped, uneven, unexacting, unfactual, unfinical, unfinished,
     unfussy, unmeticulous, unpainstaking, unparticular, unperfected,
     unplain, unprecise, unpunctilious, unpunctual, unrigorous,
     unscrupulous, unsound, unspecified, unthorough, untrue, vague,
     veiled, wanting, wrong