imprecisely
English
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Adverb
imprecisely (comparative more imprecisely, superlative most imprecisely)
- In an imprecise manner.
- 1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.
- 2007 October 6, The New York Times, “Dance in Review”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:
- They were read imprecisely but overemphatically by Lillias White (“Unimaginable, unimaginable horrors.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “imprecise manner”): precisely, accurately, exactly
Translations
in an imprecise manner
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *né
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *per- (before)
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)
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