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inaccurate

UK/ɪnˈæ.kjʊ.ɹət//ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

inaccurate adjective: mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.

Adjective

inaccurate (comparative more inaccurate, superlative most inaccurate)

  1. Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
    • It is not benchmarkable and it will almost inevitably be fudgeable and inaccurate to some extent, even with your best efforts to attribute benefits to specific IT changes.2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management, page 253
    • The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore criticism of its decision to air a right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama that dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims in order to serve a cheap, callous political agenda two months before...2006, Bruce R. Lindsey, Douglas J. Band, Comments About ABC Entertainment's 9/11 Film, ABC News, page 1
    Synonyms:
    incorrect, wrong

inaccurate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

inaccurate in Tamil

செம்மையில்லாத

inaccurate in Urdu

inaccurate, wrong, objectionable
بیجا bejā

inaccurate in Bengali

অশুদ্ধ, ভুল, ত্রুটিপূর্ণ, অযথার্থ

inaccurate in Malayalam

incorrect, inexact, imprecise
കൃത്യമല്ലാത്ത, സൂക്ഷ്മമല്ലാത്ത, കൃത്യതയില്ലാത്ത, ശരിയല്ലാത്ത, തെറ്റായ, പ്രമാദമായ
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inaccurate in Kannada
ತಪ್ಪು, ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲದ, ಯಥಾರ್ಥವಲ್ಲದ, ಕರಾರುವಾಕ್ಕಾಗಿಲ್ಲದ
inaccurate in Gujarati
ખોટું khoṭũ
inaccurate in Sanskrit
अशुद्ध áśuddha
inaccurate in Thai
คลาดเคลื่อน klâat-klʉ̂ʉan

Examples of inaccurate in a sentence

  • I think the third data point is inaccurate. Let's measure it again.
  • This metastudy is designed to find out whether most studies are misleadingly inaccurate.
  • This capability has led to unseemly and inaccurate rumors about asari promiscuity.

All 23 example sentences with inaccurate

Synonyms of inaccurate

Antonyms

Forms of inaccurate

comparativemore inaccurate
superlativemost inaccurate

Origin of inaccurate

From in- + accurate. See also unaccurate.

Words formed from inaccurate

Questions about inaccurate

What does inaccurate mean?
Inaccurate means mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
What is inaccurate in Tamil?
Inaccurate in Tamil is செம்மையில்லாத. See Inaccurate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inaccurate?
Inaccurate is an adjective.
How do you pronounce inaccurate?
Inaccurate is pronounced /ɪnˈæ.kjʊ.ɹət/ (UK).

Words near inaccurate in the dictionary

  1. inaccordancy
  2. inaccordant
  3. inaccrochable
  4. inaccuracies
  5. inaccuracy
  6. inaccurate
  7. inaccurately
  8. inaccurateness
  9. inachid
  10. inachids
  11. inachievable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inaccurate (page history and authors); inaccurate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بیجا (Urdu) (page history and authors); Inaccurate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inaccurate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inaccurate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ખોટું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अशुद्ध (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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