Crossword clues for inexact
inexact
- Popular old routine? Not accurate
- Popular book, needing no introduction, includes account which is not quite accurate
- Ballpark popular with former player
- I subsequently will accept bill as imprecise
- Trendy, topless means of reproducing? Not nice!
- Like some sciences
- Not on the dot
- Not all that precise
- Fuzzy — untrue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexact \In`ex*act"\, a. [Pref. in- not + exact: cf. F. inexact.] Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect. 2 Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated 3 (context physics of a differential English) having a path-dependent integral
WordNet
adj. not exact [ant: exact]
not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation" [syn: inaccurate]
Usage examples of "inexact".
There are three Popesthe Pope of the West in Rome, the Pope of the East in Constantinople, and the Pope of the South whose seat is called Roma Africana and is somewhere on the east coast of Africa, but the few maps are so inexact that that city could be anywhere between Durban and Mogishu.
The best thing I can do therefore is, I think to give my impressions in my own inexact language, without any attempt to wear a garment of knowledge to which I have no claim.
There are two or three methods of dry assay for iron, but they are not only inexact, but more troublesome than the wet methods, and need not be further considered.
Pope of the West in Rome, the Pope of the East in Constantinople, and the Pope of the South whose seat is called Roma Africana and is somewhere on the east coast of Africa, but the few maps are so inexact that that city could be anywhere between Durban and Mogishu.
It was maddening: so inexact, so imprecise, mere approximations of meaning, images and sensations rather than words, which must be deciphered, which must be interpreted.