Usually means: Not exact, lacking accurate detail.
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  1. imprecise: Merriam-Webster
  2. imprecise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imprecise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imprecise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imprecise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imprecise, imprecise: Wordnik
  7. imprecise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imprecise: Wiktionary
  9. imprecise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imprecise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imprecise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. imprecise: Dictionary.com
  13. imprecise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. imprecise: Rhymezone
  15. imprecise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. imprecise: FreeDictionary.org
  17. imprecise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. imprecise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. imprecise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. imprecise: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not precise or exact; containing some error or uncertainty.

Similar:
inexact, inaccurate, general, unprecise, nonaccurate, nonprecise, unexact, indeterminate, loose, indeterminant, more...

Opposite:
precise, exact, accurate

Types:
inexact, vague, ambiguous, more...

Phrases:
imprecise probability, imprecise amount, imprecise bubble gum quantities, imprecise representation, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, best, vague, such, inherently, incomplete, very, inquiry, ambiguous, left

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    mauve,     taupe,     beige,     lavender,     chartreuse, more...



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Similar:
inexact, inaccurate, general, unprecise, nonaccurate, nonprecise, unexact, indeterminate, loose, indeterminant, more...

Opposite:
precise, exact, accurate

Types:
inexact, vague, ambiguous, more...

Phrases:
imprecise probability, imprecise amount, imprecise bubble gum quantities, imprecise representation, more...

Adjectives:
little, more, best, vague, such, inherently, incomplete, very, inquiry, ambiguous, left

Colors:
    mauve,     taupe,     beige,     lavender,     chartreuse, more...



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