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imprecise

adjective as in approximate

adjective as in general

adjective as in indeterminate

adjective as in inexact

Weak matches

adjective as in loose

adjective as in nebulous

adjective as in rough

adjective as in unclear

adjective as in ungrammatical

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Example Sentences

You can try letting a little air out of the mattress to make it softer or adding more air to make it firm, but that process is rather imprecise.

That imprecise discrepancy can cause big problems for baking, where accuracy makes or breaks the finished product.

Noting upfront that the data is still coming in and comparisons so quickly after—and during, really—a so-recent period are imprecise, there are still warning signs that America has not healed the way we’d like to believe.

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I got the sense he found traditional schooling a waste of time, an imprecise way to get where he wanted to go.

Currently, answers to those questions can be frustratingly imprecise.

As Armstrong writes, “It was not a ‘great objective something,’ but had imprecise connotations of obligation and taboo.”

Some of the mutterings of Rust Cohle come from the perfectly elliptical and safely imprecise musings of Thomas Ligotti.

You also refer it by the fraction 22/7 if you want to be imprecise about the whole thing.

I've argued that term is inartful, impolitic and also, as Pletka points out, imprecise because of Christian pro-Israel sentiment.

She could be wretchedly imprecise, capricious, and heartless to her co-workers.

One single fact may make a law appear, where a multitude of imprecise and vague observations would only produce confusion.

Language is ambiguous, imprecise, and not neutral in respect to the phenomena observed and accounted for.

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On this page you'll find 656 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imprecise, such as: estimated, guessed, loose, rough, surmised, and imperfect.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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