Imprecise

//ɪmpɹəˈsaɪs//

"Imprecise" in a Sentence (7 examples)

It's so imprecise.

We were imprecise.

The data is often imprecise.

The measurement is far too imprecise.

The strong hurricanes bearing down on the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico this year have caused renewed interest in predicting these violent tropical cyclones. Forecasting them has improved significantly in the last 25 years, providing more lead time for evacuation and other protective measures. But, it is still an imprecise science that needs a lot of fine-tuning.

Every translation is imprecise, every translation is free.

Rushdie oxymoronically notes that Hobson-Jobson ‘can be wonderfully imprecise at times’ (1985: 82).

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