WRONG


Meaning of WRONG in English

n. 25B6; adjective

the wrong answer : INCORRECT, mistaken, in error, erroneous, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target, unsound, faulty; informal off beam, out.

he knew he had said the wrong thing : INAPPROPRIATE, unsuitable, inapt, inapposite, undesirable; ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-judged, impolitic, injudicious, infelicitous, unfitting, out of keeping, improper; informal out of order.

I've done nothing wrong : ILLEGAL, unlawful, illicit, criminal, dishonest, dishonourable, corrupt; unethical, immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, iniquitous, nefarious, blameworthy, reprehensible; informal crooked.

there's something wrong with the engine : AMISS, awry, out of order, not right, faulty, defective.

right, correct, appropriate, legal.

25B6; adverb she guessed wrong : INCORRECTLY, wrongly, inaccurately, erroneously, mistakenly.

25B6; noun

the difference between right and wrong : IMMORALITY, sin, sinfulness, wickedness, evil; unlawfulness, crime, corruption, villainy, dishonesty, injustice, wrongdoing, misconduct, transgression.

an attempt to make up for past wrongs : MISDEED, offence, injury, crime, transgression, peccadillo, sin; injustice, outrage, atrocity; Law tort; archaic trespass.

right.

25B6; verb

she was determined to forget the man who had wronged her : ILL-USE, mistreat, do an injustice to, do wrong to, ill-treat, abuse, harm, hurt, injure; informal do the dirty on.

perhaps I am wronging him : MALIGN, misrepresent, do a disservice to, impugn, defame, slander, libel.

25A0; get someone/something wrong MISUNDERSTAND, misinterpret, misconstrue, mistake, misread, take amiss; get the wrong idea/impression; informal get the wrong end of the stick, be barking up the wrong tree.

25A0; go wrong

I've gone wrong somewhere : MAKE A MISTAKE, make an error, make a blunder, blunder, miscalculate, trip up; informal slip up, screw up, make a boo-boo; Brit. informal boob.

their plans went wrong : GO AWRY, go amiss, go off course, fail, be unsuccessful, fall through, come to nothing; backfire, misfire, rebound; informal come to grief, come a cropper, go up in smoke; Brit. informal go adrift.

the radio's gone wrong : BREAK DOWN, malfunction, fail, stop working, crash, give out; informal be on the blink, conk out, go kaput; Brit. informal play up, pack up.

25A0; in the wrong TO BLAME, blameworthy, at fault, reprehensible, responsible, culpable, answerable, guilty; archaic peccant.

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