inaccurate

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=ac=cu=rate

CIDE DICTIONARY

inaccurate, a. 

 Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; not quite correct; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.
"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."  [1913 Webster]
"The expression is plainly inaccurate."

Syn. -- Inexact; incorrect; erroneous; faulty; imperfect; incomplete; defective.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inaccurate, adj. not accurate.

Derivative

inaccuracy n. (pl. -ies). inaccurately adv.

THESAURUS

inaccurate

adulterated, aleatoric, aleatory, all wet, amiss, amorphous, approximate, approximative, awry, blemished, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, chance, chancy, chaotic, cold, confused, damaged, defective, deficient, disordered, erroneous, fallacious, fallible, false, faulty, flawed, foggy, found wanting, fuzzy, general, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, illogical, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incomplete, incorrect, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, lacking, lax, loose, makeshift, mediocre, mistaken, mixed, 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, specious, 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, untrue, vague, veiled, wanting, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

inaccurate

Solecism

N solecism, bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar, slip of the pen, slip of the tongue, lapsus linguae, slipslop, bull, barbarism, impropriety, ungrammatical, incorrect, inaccurate, faulty, improper, incongruous, solecistic, solecistical.