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One name on former statute is not quite right
Answer for the clue "One name on former statute is not quite right ", 7 letters:
inexact
Alternative clues for the word inexact
- Like some sciences
- Not quite right in previous performance
- Not quite accurate
- Nice tax (anag) — approximate
- Trendy, topless means of reproducing? Not nice!
- Popular book, needing no introduction, includes account which is not quite accurate
- Not entirely accurate
- I subsequently will accept bill as imprecise
Word definitions for inexact in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inexact \In`ex*act"\, a. [Pref. in- not + exact: cf. F. inexact.] Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN science ▪ That is why valuation, under the old rating system, was a most inexact science . ▪ Entertaining, for sure, but an inexact science . ▪ Some of them were really interested in meteorology, others only tolerant ...
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.