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Slipshod vs Inexact - What's the difference?

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Slipshod is a related term of inexact.


As adjectives the difference between slipshod and inexact

is that slipshod is done poorly or too quickly; slapdash while inexact is imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.

slipshod

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Done poorly or too quickly; slapdash.
  • * 1880 , ":
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) Wearing slippers or similarly open shoes.
  • * 1840 , :
  • [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.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    inexact

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
  • Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated
  • (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