wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ɹæŋ/
enpr: rông
ipa: /ˈɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: wrongs
form: wronging
form: wronged
form: wronged
Etymology: From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Senses: examples: text: The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
text: Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], line 109:
glosses: To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
examples: text: ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], line 121:
glosses: To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
examples: text: O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], line 121:
glosses: To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: awrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: bark up the wrong tree
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: civil wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: go down the wrong way
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: go wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: in the wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: my country, right or wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: put a foot wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: rub someone the wrong way
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: self-wrong
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: start off on the wrong foot
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
english: something
translation: something
word: take the wrong way
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: two wrongs don't make a right
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: two wrongs make a right
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongdoing
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wronger
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong-foot
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongful
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongfully
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wronghead
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong-headed
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongless
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongly
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongness
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong number
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrongous
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong side of bed
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong side of the tracks
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong side out
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong-timed
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong 'un
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong way
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
word: wrong-way concurrency
Related terms: wronged
wrung