The difference between Imperfect and Inexact

When used as adjectives, imperfect means not perfect, whereas inexact means imperfectly conforming.


Imperfect is also noun with the meaning: something having a minor flaw.

Imperfect is also verb with the meaning: to make imperfect.

check bellow for the other definitions of Imperfect and Inexact

  1. Imperfect as an adjective:

    not perfect

    Examples:

    "synonyms: defective fallible faultful"

    "ant faultless infallible perfect"

  2. Imperfect as an adjective (botany):

    unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

    Examples:

    "ant perfect"

  3. Imperfect as an adjective (taxonomy):

    known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

  4. Imperfect as an adjective (obsolete):

    lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

  5. Imperfect as an adjective (grammar):

    belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

  1. Imperfect as a noun:

    something having a minor flaw

  2. Imperfect as a noun (grammar):

    a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

    Examples:

    "synonyms: preterimperfect"

  1. Imperfect as a verb (transitive):

    to make imperfect

  1. Inexact as an adjective:

    Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.

  2. Inexact as an adjective:

    Imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated

  3. Inexact as an adjective (physics, of a differential):

    having a path-dependent integral