| 单词 | inaccurate |
| 释义 | inaccurate (once / 2029 pages) adj If what you tell me is not exactly right, it is inaccurate. If you measured the amount of rainfall incorrectly, your data about the climate would be inaccurate. Accuracy means being very precise and getting the information right. When something is inaccurate, it is the opposite of exact. If you get a question wrong on a test, your teacher will not say, "You, sir, are inaccurate," she'll just say you are wrong. She might also explain that your inaccurate methodology led to an inaccurate response. WORD FAMILYinaccurate: inaccurately+/accuracy: accuracies, inaccuracy/accurate: accuracy, accurately, accuratest, inaccurate/inaccuracy: inaccuracies USAGE EXAMPLESMy female GP changed my condition to non-morbid obesity after I complained that the previous label, obesity due to excess food consumption, was inaccurate. New York Times(May 02, 2016) In an email, he characterized the data in the report as “grossly inaccurate” and its conclusions “completely unreliable.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) “Sleep sensors are feeding back inaccurate information,” said Hawley Montgomery-Downs, a sleep expert and an associate professor of psychology at West Virginia University. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) adj not exact an inaccurate translation the thermometer is inaccurate Syn|Ant away, outside (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter faulty, incorrect, wrongcharacterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules unfaithfulnot trustworthy wide, wide of the marknot on target incorrect, wrongnot correct; not in conformity with fact or truth inexactnot exact imprecisenot precise accurate conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy close, faithfulmarked by fidelity to an original dead-onaccurate and to the point hi-fi, high-fidelitycharacterized by minimal distortion in sound reproduction surgicalperformed with great precision straightin keeping with the facts dead on target, trueaccurately placed or thrown right, veraciousprecisely accurate correct, rightfree from error; especially conforming to fact or truth exactmarked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact precisesharply exact or accurate or delimited |
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