Inexact

3 definitions found

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

  Inexact \In`ex*act"\, a. [Pref. in- not + exact: cf. F.
     inexact.]
     Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  inexact
       adj 1: not exact [ant: {exact}]
       2: not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation" [syn: {inaccurate}]

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

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexact":
     adulterated, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, approximate,
     approximative, blemished, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance,
     chancy, chaotic, confused, damaged, defective, deficient,
     disordered, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faulty, foggy,
     found wanting, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined,
     immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate,
     inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incomplete, incorrect,
     indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate,
     indistinct, lacking, lax, loose, makeshift, mediocre, mixed,
     muddled, 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, 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, vague, veiled, wanting, wrong