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imprecisely

imprecisely adverb: in an imprecise manner.

Adverb

imprecisely (comparative more imprecisely, superlative most imprecisely)

  1. In an imprecise manner.
    • He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    • They were read imprecisely but overemphatically by Lillias White (“Unimaginable, unimaginable horrors.2007 October 6, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    inexactly, roughly

Synonyms of imprecisely

Antonyms

Forms of imprecisely

comparativemore imprecisely
superlativemost imprecisely

Origin of imprecisely

From imprecise + -ly.

Questions about imprecisely

What does imprecisely mean?
Imprecisely means in an imprecise manner.
What part of speech is imprecisely?
Imprecisely is an adverb.

Words near imprecisely in the dictionary

  1. imprecator
  2. imprecatorily
  3. imprecators
  4. imprecatory
  5. imprecise
  6. imprecisely
  7. impreciseness
  8. imprecisenesses
  9. imprecision
  10. imprecisions
  11. impredicable

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