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.