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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not precise.
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- adjective Not
precise orexact ; containing someerror oruncertainty .
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- adjective not precise
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Examples
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Defying all odds, however imprecise, is Roy Sullivan, a forest ranger who survived a world-record seven lightning strikes.
The Almanac 1995
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America’s political debates about the “China opportunity” and, even more, the “China threat” seem distant, theoretical, and imprecise from the perspective of the factories where the outsourcing and exporting occur.
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America’s political debates about the “China opportunity” and, even more, the “China threat” seem distant, theoretical, and imprecise from the perspective of the factories where the outsourcing and exporting occur.
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America’s political debates about the “China opportunity” and, even more, the “China threat” seem distant, theoretical, and imprecise from the perspective of the factories where the outsourcing and exporting occur.
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The term is imprecise and subjective, though it was widely used during the Cold War.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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The term is imprecise and subjective, though it was widely used during the Cold War.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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The process is imprecise, which is where the game's challenge springs from.
IGN Wii 2009
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In his decision this month dismissing the charges, Cunningham said that he assigned "little weight" to MacLeod's "imprecise" recollections.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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But it is clearly true that the profession scorns qualitative or "imprecise" analysis for published work.
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But it is clearly true that the profession scorns qualitative or "imprecise" analysis for published work.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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- adulterated
- aleatoric
- aleatory
- ambiguous
- amorphous
- approximate
- approximative
- barbarous
- blemished
- blobby
- blurred
- blurry
- broad
- careless
- chance
- chancy
- chaotic
- cloudy
- confused
- damaged
- defective
- deficient
- disordered
- easy
- easygoing
- erroneous
- fallible
- faulty
- foggy
- found wanting
- fuzzy
- general
- hazy
- hit-or-miss
- ill-defined
- immature
- impaired
- imperfect
- impotent
- improper
- impure
- inaccurate
- inadequate
- inchoate
- incoherent
- incomplete
- incorrect
- indecisive
- indefinable
- indefinite
- indeterminable
- indeterminate
- indifferent
- indistinct
- inexact
- inexplicit
- infelicitous
- lacking
- lax
- lenient
- loose
- makeshift
- mediocre
- mixed
- negligent
- nonspecific
- not perfect
- obscure
- off
- orderless
- out of line
- out of plumb
- out of square
- out of true
- overindulgent
- overpermissive
- partial
- patchy
- permissive
- random
- relaxed
- remiss
- shadowed forth
- shadowy
- shapeless
- short
- sketchy
- slack
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- soft
- solecistic
- stochastic
- sweeping
- unclear
- undefined
- undestined
- undetermined
- undeveloped
- uneven
- unfactual
- unfinished
- ungrammatic
- unperfected
- unplain
- unprecise
- unrestrained
- unrigorous
- unsound
- unspecified
- unthorough
- vague
- veiled
- wanting
- weak
- woolly
- wrong
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