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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not accurate; not exact or correct; erroneous; of persons, disposed to commit errors; careless as regards accuracy of statement.
  • Synonyms Incorrect, inexact, blundering, loose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; not quite correct; incorrect; erroneous

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not exact

Etymologies

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In- equivalent of un- + accurate.

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