Word Meanings - INACCURACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INACCURACY)

• Blunder
• Error
• mistake
• misunderstanding
• fault
• oversight
• inaccuracy
• delusion
• slip

Related words: (words related to INACCURACY)

• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• MISTAKEN
  1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
• MISTAKER
  One who mistakes. Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers. Bp. Hall.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• MISTAKE
  1. To take or choose wrongly. Shak. 2. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak. 3. To substitute in thought
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• MISUNDERSTANDER
  One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• MISUNDERSTANDING
  1. Mistake of the meaning; error; misconception. Bacon. 2. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.
• INACCURACY
  1. The quality of being inaccurate; want of accuracy or exactness. 2. That which is inaccurate or incorrect; mistake; fault; defect; error; as, in inaccuracy in speech, copying, calculation, etc.
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• DELUSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
• DELUSION
  1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
• MISUNDERSTAND
  To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
• OVERSIGHT
  1. Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision. 2. An overlooking; an omission; an error. Hooker. 3. Escape from an overlooked peril. "His fool-happy oversight." Spenser. Syn. -- Superintendence; supervision; inspection; overlooking;
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.