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unaccurately

unaccurately is the obsolete form of inaccurately.

Meaning of inaccurately

Adverb

inaccurately (comparative more inaccurately, superlative most inaccurately)

  1. In an inaccurate manner; incorrectly; inexactly.
    • In his opening pages he defines snark negatively — as a practice that certain famed comics are often charged with, but undeservedly and inaccurately because they actually trade in “irony” and also, one can’t help but gather from Denby’s remarks, because they’re politically virtuous in their japery...2009 February 22, Walter Kirn, “Insult as Injury”, in The New York Times

Forms of unaccurately

comparativemore unaccurately
superlativemost unaccurately

Origin of unaccurately

From unaccurate + -ly.

Questions about unaccurately

What is unaccurately the obsolete form of?
Unaccurately is the obsolete form of inaccurately.

Words near unaccurately in the dictionary

  1. unaccumulates
  2. unaccumulating
  3. unaccumulation
  4. unaccuracy
  5. unaccurate
  6. unaccurately
  7. unaccurateness
  8. unaccursed
  9. unaccusable
  10. unaccusably
  11. unaccusative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unaccurately (page history and authors); inaccurately (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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