INEXACTITUDE Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

inexactitude

noun

Definition of inexactitude

as in inaccuracy

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Recent Examples of inexactitude For people like Davis, there is clearly a freedom that comes with this inexactitude. — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 3 Apr. 2018 Bruno was fed up with berating his cooks for all their mistakes and inexactitudes, not to mention the grumbling. — Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018 So much of the film turns on such evocative inexactitude, on our ability to wonder (and wander) about the image. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021

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Noun

Meta has countered that Wynn-Williams violated her agreement and wrote a book filled with inaccuracies.

— Barbara Ortutay, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
The most important risk is confident inaccuracy.

— Pukar Hamal, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of inaccuracy

Noun

The imprecision in his birthdate, which differs from the singularness in the date of his death, feels like an open wound where the dying is more certain than the living.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
A certain amount of confusion and imprecision is built into the use of the term.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026

Definition of imprecision

Noun

As a rough approximation, the error rates of logical qubits depend on a combination of how many hardware qubits are used to create the logical ones, and the error rate of the hardware qubits.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
Just like the golden ratio for the earlier inequality, setting α equal to √2 prevents a better approximation result.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026

Definition of approximation

Noun

The result is an aesthetic that skillfully balances a variety of textures, including injecting Shou Sugi Ban custom treatments inspired by Japanese principles of wabi-sabi that typically employ elements of asymmetry, roughness, and simplicity.

— Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
Features such as surface roughness and protruding fibers create more sites where particles can stick to the outer surface rather than passing through.

— Sumit Mandal, The Conversation, 9 June 2026

Definition of roughness

Noun

But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.

— Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
The term plant texture refers to the fineness or coarseness, roughness or smoothness, heaviness or lightness of a particular plant.

— David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026

Definition of coarseness

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