inexact

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ex=act

CIDE DICTIONARY

inexact, a. [Pref. in- not + exact: cf. F. inexact.].

 Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inexact, adj. not exact.

Derivative

inexactitude n. inexactly adv. inexactness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

inexact

Feebleness

N feebleness, feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid, colorless, enervated, proposing, prosy, prosaic, unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy, sketchy, slight, careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent), slipshod, slipslop, inexact, puerile, childish, flatulent, rambling.

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.