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imprecise
adjective as in approximate
adjective as in faulty
Strongest matches
adjective as in general
adjective as in impalpable
adjective as in inaccurate
adjective as in incorrect
adjective as in indefinite
adjective as in indeterminate
adjective as in lax
adjective as in loose
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adjective as in nebulous
adjective as in rough
adjective as in rude
adjective as in truthless
Weak matches
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
adjective as in unclear
adjective as in uncritical
adjective as in ungrammatical
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Weak matches
adjective as in untrue
Strongest matches
adjective as in vague
Weak matches
- amorphous
- amphibological
- bewildering
- bleary
- blurred
- cloudy
- dark
- dim
- doubtful
- dreamlike
- enigmatic
- generalized
- ill-defined
- impalpable
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- inexplicable
- loose
- misunderstood
- muddy
- perplexing
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- shadowy
- superficial
- tenebrous
- undetermined
- unexplicit
- unintelligible
- unknown
- unsettled
- unspecified
Example Sentences
Democrats have much bigger media problems than the New York Times’ sometimes using imprecise adjectives in its stories about Trump.
In a letter, a Securus analyst said the data were so imprecise he was unwilling to swear to its accuracy in court.
He didn’t say in his letter why the data were imprecise or how widespread the problem was.
While Patel’s LinkedIn post told those interested in campaigning that “we will sort your housing”, it is being argued that this was imprecise language.
“While it is certainly expected that political candidates address geopolitics, and while there are legitimate and serious criticisms of the Chinese Communist Party, imprecise and inflammatory rhetoric can create the false narrative that targets Asian Americans as untrustworthy, anti-American or ‘perpetual foreigners,’” the letter said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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