different between slipshod vs inexact

English

Etymology

slip + shod (“wearing shoes”), originally "wearing slippers", "slovenly" is from early 19th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl?p.??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?p.??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

slipshod (comparative more slipshod, superlative most slipshod)

1. Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
   • 1880, Mark Twain, "The Awful German Language":

     Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.

   • 1999 Aug. 22, Johanna McGeary, "Buried Alive," Time:

     Newspapers pointed at greedy contractors who used shoddy materials, slipshod methods and the help of corrupt officials to bypass building codes.

2. (obsolete) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
   • 1840, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 67:

     [T]hey wandered up and down hardly remembering the ways untrodden by their feet so long, and crying [...] as they slunk off in their rags, and dragged their slipshod feet along the pavement.

   • 1870, Bret Harte, "From a Back Window"

     That glossy, well-brushed individual, who lets himself in with a latch-key at the front door at night, is a very different being from the slipshod wretch who growls of mornings for hot water at the door of the kitchen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:careless

Translations

English

Etymology

From French inexact

Adjective

inexact (comparative more inexact, superlative most inexact)

1. Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
2. Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated.
3. (physics, of a differential) having a path-dependent integral

Synonyms

• (imperfectly conforming): imperfect, imprecise
• (imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated): loose

Antonyms

• (precisely agreeing): exact, perfect, precise
• (precisely or definitely conceived or stated): exact, strict
• (having a path-dependent integral): exact

Translations

Anagrams

• Texican

French

Etymology

in- +? exact

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.n??.zakt/

Adjective

inexact (feminine singular inexacte, masculine plural inexacts, feminine plural inexactes)

1. inexact (not exact)

Antonyms

• exact

Further reading

• “inexact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French inexact.

Adjective

inexact m or n (feminine singular inexact?, masculine plural inexac?i, feminine and neuter plural inexacte)

1. inaccurate

Declension