IMPRECISENESS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

impreciseness

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Noun

Perhaps only a pedant—or a hypocrite—would fuss about that kind of imprecision.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Such imprecision gives the whole movie the quality of a cosmic joke.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of imprecision

Noun

The 1997 Disney movie Hercules mixed Roman and Greek names, helping propagate this and other inaccuracies (not uncommon in Hollywood’s depictions of ancient Greece).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
Admittedly, no one in the movie actually wore beige pants, so there's an inaccuracy there, which is odd given this is an officially licensed Alien costume.

— Chris McMullen, Space.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of inaccuracy

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At home, Bob could put those videos on a widescreen television and experience some approximation of being there again.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
With just a few more steps, the group turned the approximation of the surface into an explicit equation and, ultimately, a family of polynomials with degree-23 (meaning the variable climbs to x23 and there are 23 roots to shuffle around).

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of approximation

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Delane, who was taken by the Chiefs in the first round of this year’s NFL Draft out of LSU, was fined $12,537 for unnecessary roughness on a low block.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
The Horned Frogs committed 11 penalties in both games against North Carolina and UCF, including multiple unnecessary roughness penalties and holding calls that derailed drives.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of roughness

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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
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

Definition of inexactitude

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