Crossword clues for inaccurate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The expression is plainly inaccurate.
--Bp. Hurd.
Syn: Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect; incomplete; defective.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
WordNet
Usage examples of "inaccurate".
But any method for thus combining the bases and acids must be arbitrary and inaccurate.
His return fire, desperate and inaccurate, was still enough to drive Fett back toward the rocky hillside.
He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheel-lock pistol.
Eleanor often described Lady Renable as frivolous and ostentatious, and it was not an inaccurate description.
I could see some scholarly script editor going through my manuscript and rubbishing it as grossly inaccurate.
She might well harbor notions of Normans and their vindictive treatment of unvirtuous or disobedient brides, notions that were neither wholly inaccurate nor unjustified.
There had been only minor interest from the zines, whose commentators asked why our radionics were so inaccurate.
In this passage, there is an allusion of JUST SIX WORDS to one phase of experimentation which was subsequently found to be inaccurate, and corrected, as Dr.
Even given his gift for inaccurate precis, it seemed unlikely the postman had got things this wrong.
On the nearest one, a beautiful woman stood with her feet on the back of a crooked devil, her left hand raised against a swarm of inaccurate, fishlike representations of the Dark Ones, her right arm and cloak sheltering a crowd of kneeling supplicants.
The maps were crude and probably inaccurate, but they were the best Shool had had.
Bruno and Christiane found themselves, but that would be simplistic and inaccurate.
Wildly lurid and inaccurate versions of how he had wrecked Circum Central, doomed the planet Glister, and then vanished, still circulated.
Search your work for any metaphor that seems cliched, strained, farfetched or simply inaccurate.
The first thing he had to do was make the description even more inaccurate.