Inaccuracy

Noun

 * 1)  The property of being inaccurate; lack of accuracy.
 * 2)  A statement, passage etc. that is inaccurate or false.
 * 3)  Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.
 * 1)  Incorrect calibration of a measuring device, or incorrect use; lack of precision.

Synonyms

 * (property) imprecision, incorrectness, inexactness
 * (inaccurate/false statement etc.) error, mistake, fault

Antonyms

 * accuracy

Related terms

 * inaccurate
 * inaccurately

Adjectives for Inaccuracy
demoniac; unintentional; slight; gross.

Verbs for Inaccuracy
calculate—; conceal—; condemn—; contain —s; correct—; couch in—; criticize—; curse —; deal in—; detect—; observe—; overlook—; plague with—s; prove—; rectify—; suffer—; —astonishes; —overwhelms.

Thesaurus
abstractionism, adulteration, allowance, amorphousness, approximation, blobbiness, blurriness, broadness, coloring, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, deformation, deviation, disorder, distortion, erroneousness, exaggeration, expressionism, fallibility, false coloring, falsification, faultiness, fogginess, fuzziness, garbling, generality, haziness, hyperbole, ill-definedness, immaturity, impairment, imperfection, imprecision, impurity, inaccurateness, inadequacy, inadequateness, inchoateness, incoherence, incompleteness, incorrectness, indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, indistinctness, inexactitude, inexactness, injustice, lack, laxity, litotes, looseness, mediocrity, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, mistiness, negligence, nonrealism, obscuration, obscurity, overdrawing, overstatement, patchiness, perversion, predictable error, probable error, shapelessness, shortage, shortcoming, sketchiness, slanting, standard deviation, sweepingness, tolerance, twisting, unclearness, unconscientiousness, uncorrectness, uncriticalness, understatement, undevelopment, unevenness, unexactingness, unfactualness, unfinicalness, unfussiness, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unperfectedness, unpreciseness, unpunctiliousness, unpunctuality, unrigorousness, unscrupulousness, unsoundness, vagueness, want

Etymology
in- 'un-, not' + accuracy (from accuratus, from the past particople of accurare "to take care of", itself from ad- "to" + curare "take care of" (from cura "care, concern, trouble", from a Proto-Indo-European base *kois- "to be concerned"))

Translations

 * Dutch: onnauwkeurigheid
 * Finnish: epätarkkuus, epätäsmällisyys
 * German:
 * Kurdish:


 * Russian:
 * Simplified Chinese:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: fout, onnauwkeurigheid, onjuistheid, onwaarheid
 * German:, Unwarheit


 * Simplified Chinese: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: onnauwkeurigheid
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Russian: ,
 * Simplified Chinese: ,
 * Traditional Chinese:


 * : erreur, faute, inacuratesse, imprécision, inexactitude
 * : Fehler
 * : ανακρίβεια
 * : inesattezza
 * : 誤り
 * : 부정확
 * : inexactitud