IMPRECISENESS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

impreciseness

noun

as in imprecision

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Noun

Australia clung to its final six point margin for the last 27 minutes of the match when tiredness induced by altitude in the mountainous venue saw some sloppiness and imprecision invade its game.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
His chat section is littered with critiques of his pitch selection and pitch-meter imprecision.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of imprecision

Noun

Patricia Simner, who directs the clinical-microbiology molecular laboratory at the Mayo Clinic, told me that some genetic libraries of pathogens are painstakingly curated for accuracy, but others are peppered with inaccuracies.

— Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2026
This discipline allows marketers to move quickly while maintaining a consistent narrative and reducing the risk of inaccuracies or hallucinations spreading across channels.

— Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of inaccuracy

Noun

This is an approximation based on years of berry eating, not a real statistic.

— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2026
But much of it also had an obvious swagger and drive, sometimes with grooves that hinted at funk, or at least a Jane’s Addiction-like approximation of it.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of approximation

Noun

Even with an unnecessary roughness penalty in the fourth, Shelley made his reps count, making five tackles and breaking up a deep pass from Rams quarterback Ty Simpson intended for Tyler Scott.

— Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
According to the company, the platform delivers high critical-dimension uniformity, low line-edge roughness, and a large process window across an entire wafer.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

Definition of roughness

Noun

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

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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