unaccurate

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adjective

Not accurate; inaccurate.

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Meanings

adjectiveunaccurate (comparative more unaccurate, superlative most unaccurate)

comparative more unaccurate · superlative most unaccurate

  1. obsoleteNot accurate; inaccurate.

    1698, John Locke, letter to Bishop of Worcester I do by no means find fault with such figurative and common ways of speaking, in popular and ordinary Discourses, where unaccurate Thoughts allow unaccurate ways of speaking.

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    So unaccurate is it […] that if examin'd with an organ more acute than that by which they were made, the more we see of their shape, the less appearance will there be of their beauty […]

    1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I

Origin

From un- + accurate.

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unaccurate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaccurate

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“unaccurate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaccurate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unaccurate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unaccurate.

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