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inexact

inexact adjective: imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.

Adjective

inexact (comparative more inexact, superlative most inexact)

  1. Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
    Synonyms:
    imperfect, imprecise
  2. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
    • At the same time, we were cognisant that careful scholars should never solely rely on their own impressionistic observations, and, that our own impressions were inexact and not capable of being quantified.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7
    Synonyms:
    loose
  3. having a path-dependent integral

inexact meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

inexact in Tamil

துல்லியமற்ற, தோராயமான

inexact in Urdu

ڈھیلی, نادرست, ناقص, الٹ

inexact in Malayalam

inaccurate, imprecise, approximate
കൃത്യമല്ലാത്ത, കണിശമല്ലാത്ത, കണിശതയില്ലാത്ത, ശരിയല്ലാത്ത, കൃത്യതയില്ലാത്ത, അസൂക്ഷ്മം

inexact in Kannada

ಸರಿಯಲ್ಲದ, ನನ್ನಿಯಲ್ಲದ
More languagesFewer languages
inexact in Tagalog
disingkad

Synonyms of inexact

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All synonyms and antonyms of inexact

Forms of inexact

comparativemore inexact
superlativemost inexact

Origin of inexact

From French inexact.

Words formed from inexact

Questions about inexact

What does inexact mean?
Inexact means imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
What is inexact in Tamil?
Inexact in Tamil is துல்லியமற்ற, தோராயமான. See Inexact meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is inexact?
Inexact is an adjective.

Words near inexact in the dictionary

  1. inevitable abortions
  2. inevitableness
  3. inevitables
  4. inevitably
  5. inex
  6. inexact
  7. inexacting
  8. inexactitude
  9. inexactitudes
  10. inexactly
  11. inexactness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: inexact (page history and authors); inexact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inexact (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inexact (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inexact (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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