wrong
adjective (NOT CORRECT) /rɒŋ/
/rɑːŋ/ Definition
A1 not correct: Three of your answers were wrong. That clock is wrong - it's 12.30, not 12.15. Some of his facts are questionable, others are plainly (= completely) wrong. → Compare right adjectiveWrong A2 If someone is wrong, they are not correct in their judgment or statement about something: You were wrong about the time - the shop closed at 7.00. He's wrong in thinking that we will support the project financially.Wrong prove sb wrong › to show by your actions that someone's judgment of you was not correct: I thought she couldn't do it, but she proved me wrong.Wrong
(Definition of wrong adjective (NOT CORRECT) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Accurate and exact
- Approximate
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
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Synonyms and related words:
- aberrant adjective
- abnormal adjective
- amiss adjective
- awry adjective, adverb
- back the wrong horse idiom
- falsely adverb (NOT CORRECTLY)
- flawed adjective
- gross adjective (UNACCEPTABLE)
- grossly adverb
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise adjective
- invalid adjective
- irregular adjective (RULE)
- liberal adjective (NOT EXACT)
- mal- prefix
- mis- prefix
- mistaken adjective
- off beam adjective
- wrongheaded adjective
- wrongly adverb
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