INACCURATE


Meaning of INACCURATE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sb's calculations are wrong/inaccurate

Some of our calculations were wrong.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

often

These were described by the parents later as inadequate and often inaccurate .

What information they do have is often inaccurate and loaded with unreal expectations.

■ NOUN

data

If these conditions are met, then the inaccurate data does not breach this principle.

This factor would yield inaccurate data .

information

The inaccurate information given by all these busybodies didn't help at all.

The speaker in December admitted to having provided inaccurate information to the ethics panel.

We now accept that the report was based upon inaccurate information and conveyed completely the wrong impression about Linford.

Most of them are usually based on inaccurate information that we have gathered about people.

In other words, no information is better than inaccurate information.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an inaccurate pass

Figures quoted in the article are wildly inaccurate .

Some of the information provided was inaccurate or incomplete.

The old maps were usually inaccurate or incomplete.

TV ratings figures are often inaccurate .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Although inaccurate statements sometimes are found, Love said no one has yet been convicted of deliberate falsification.

As I have implied, many of Durkheim's conclusions are tautological or based upon inaccurate assumptions and evidence.

It turns out that he used a translation that modern translators judge to have been inaccurate .

The inaccurate information given by all these busybodies didn't help at all.

They say the survey is inaccurate because it is based on incorrect figures that the Prime Minister gave to parliament this year.

Unfortunately, his quotations are often taken out of context and are sometimes inaccurate .

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