inaccurate[adjective]Synonyms: incorrect, defective, erroneous, faulty, imprecise, mistaken, out, unreliable, unsound, wrong
Antonyms: accurate
Contrasted words: right, true
English Thesaurus: wrong, incorrect, inaccurate, false, untrue, ... [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
wrong not correct or right – used about facts, answers etc, or people:
For every wrong answer, you lose five points.
The figure he gave me was wrong.
I think you’re wrong about that.incorrect something that is incorrect is wrong because someone has made a mistake.
Incorrect is more formal than
wrong:
I’m afraid these prices are incorrect.
The doctor had made an incorrect diagnosis.inaccurate something that is inaccurate is not exactly right and contains mistakes:
inaccurate information
inaccurate measurements
The old maps were often inaccurate.false not based on true facts:
Are the following statements true or false?
He was accused of giving false information to the police.untrue [not usually before noun] not based on true facts, especially because someone is lying or guessing:
I can’t believe he said that about me. It’s completely untrue!
The allegations were untrue.misleading a misleading statement or piece of information makes people believe something that is wrong, especially because it does not give all the facts:
The article was very misleading.
misleading statisticsmisguided a misguided decision, belief, action etc is wrong because it is based on bad judgement or understanding:
That decision seems misguided now.
It was the consequence of a misguided economic policy.mistaken wrong – used about ideas and beliefs. Also used about a person being wrong.
You’re mistaken sounds more polite and less direct than saying
you’re wrong:
She’s completely mistaken if she thinks that I don’t care about her.
a mistaken beliefgo badly/seriously wrong
The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.go horribly/terribly wrong
From that moment on, everything went horribly wrong for the team.go disastrously wrong
Help was close at hand in case the stunt went disastrously wrong.go tragically wrong (=so that death or serious injury results)
A father and son died in a fire after a good deed for a friend went tragically wrong.things go wrong
If things go wrong, they’ll blame me.something/nothing/everything goes wrong
If something goes wrong with your machine, you can take it back to the dealer.you can’t go wrong (=you cannot make a mistake)
Turn right and then right again--you really can’t go wrong.if anything can go wrong, it will
I’m sure that if anything can go wrong, it will. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲