imprecise

Word family

im·pre·cise /ˌɪmprɪˈsaɪs◂/ AWL adjectiveadj

CLEAR/EASY TO UNDERSTANDnot clear or exact 不明确的；不确切的 OPP precise, exact

vague imprecise estimates

粗略的、不精确的估计

Alcohol affects the brain, making speech slurred and imprecise.

酒精影响大脑，使言语含糊不清。

—imprecisely adverbadv

—imprecision /-ˈsɪʒən/ noun [uncountableU]

an imprecision in the terminology

专业术语的不准确

Examples from the Corpus

imprecise• The rhythms are very useful, even though quite imprecise.• His use of language is vague and imprecise.• Many of the terms used in this book are imprecise.• She gave me directions to the hotel, but they were, shall we say, somewhat imprecise.• Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.• Furthermore the sense in which we describe certain dilemmas, impulses, intuitions, or decisions as moral ones is notoriously imprecise.• If the neurons control speech, words slur and become increasingly imprecise.• imprecise estimates• Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change, becoming vague and imprecise, or distorted, or disconnected and fragmented?• In particular, how does it come about that the imprecise quantum world yields a precise answer when it is experimentally interrogated?

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Corpus

BNC: 18653 COCA: 19370

imprecise

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION

VERBS

➤be, seem不精確；似乎不準確

ADVERB

➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其／相當／非常不準確

▸➤notoriously出了名地不精確

◇Intelligence tests are notoriously imprecise.眾所周知，智力測驗並不準確。

PREPOSITION

➤about對於⋯不準確

◇She was rather imprecise about the cost of the trip.她對旅程的費用不太清楚。

BNC: 18653 COCA: 19370

imprecise adj.
⇨ vague

BNC: 18653 COCA: 19370

imprecise

Inexact and inaccurate: incorrect, inexact, wrong...