adj
Meaning 1
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
inaccurate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈæ.kjʊ.ɹət/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹət/
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General-American: /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/
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General-American: /ɪnˈæk.jɚ.ɪt/
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General-American: /-ət/
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Australian: /ɪnˈæk.jʉː.ɹət/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N AE1 K Y ER0 AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
not exact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an inaccurate translation
- the thermometer is inaccurate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: accurate
History
Etymology
From in- + accurate. See also unaccurate.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: грешен (grešen) — not accurate
- Bulgarian: неточен (netočen) — not accurate
- Catalan: imprecís — not accurate
- Chinese Mandarin: 不准确的 — not accurate
- Czech: nepřesný — not accurate
- Finnish: epätarkka — not accurate
- Finnish: virheellinen — not accurate
- French: imprécis — not accurate
- Galician: impreciso — not accurate
- German: inakkurat — not accurate
- Irish: éigrinn — not accurate
- Irish: míchruinn — not accurate
- Irish: neamhchruinn — not accurate
- Irish: neamhbheacht — not accurate
- Italian: inaccurato — not accurate
- Italian: impreciso — not accurate
- Spanish: desatinado — not accurate
- Spanish: desacertado — not accurate
- Thai: คลาดเคลื่อน (klâat-klʉ̂ʉan) — not accurate
Real reading context