wrong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ/
ipa: /ɹæŋ/
enpr: rông
ipa: /ˈɹɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: more wrong
form: most wrong
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: Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
text: Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone?
ref: 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
text: In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]
ref: 2015 December 26, Victor Robert Farrell, Night-Whispers Vol 01-Q1-'Stirring Passions', Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Throughout this time, Mystic Wolmar has been trying his luck and mostly getting it wrong - especially in 2006, when he got virtually everything wrong, including the departure of Tony Blair.
ref: 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61:
glosses: Incorrect or untrue.
examples: text: You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
glosses: Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
examples: text: It is wrong to lie.
text: Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Council Chambers, Citadel:
glosses: Immoral, not good, bad.
examples: text: A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
glosses: Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
examples: text: Something is wrong with my cellphone.
text: Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
glosses: Not working; out of order.
examples: text: the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
glosses: Designed to be worn or placed inward
examples: text: a wrong nose
glosses: Twisted; wry.
Synonyms: injurious
unjust
faulty
detrimental
unfit
unsuitable
false
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: back the wrong horse
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: bark at the wrong tree
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: begin at the wrong end
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word: can't do right for doing wrong
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word: choose the wrong horse
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word: comb someone's hair the wrong way
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word: correct me if I'm wrong
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word: dead wrong
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word: dead-wrong
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word: don't get me wrong
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word: do somebody wrong
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word: fall into the wrong hands
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word: get into the wrong hands
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word: get off on the wrong foot
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word: get on someone's wrong side
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word: get out of bed on the wrong side
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word: get up on the wrong side of bed
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word: get up on the wrong side of the bed
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word: get wrong
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word: go down the wrong pipe
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word: go down the wrong throat
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word: gone wrong
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word: in the wrong place at the wrong time
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word: laugh on the wrong side of one's face
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word: laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
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word: make a wrong turn at Albuquerque
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: make the wrong turn at Albuquerque
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word: meteorwrong
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word: not even wrong
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word: on the wrong foot
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word: on the wrong side of history
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word: on the wrong side of the blanket
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word: on the wrong track
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word: pick the wrong horse
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word: rub up the wrong way
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word: take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: take the wrong turn at Albuquerque
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word: the wrong side of
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word: through the wrong end of the telescope
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word: wake up on the wrong side of bed
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word: wrength
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word: wrong crowd
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word: wrongdoer
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word: wrong-doing
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word: wrongdoing
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word: wrong-endian
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word: wrong end of the stick
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: wronger than wrong
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word: wrong foot
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word: wrong-footed
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word: wrongful
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word: wrong-headedly
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word: wrong-headedness
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: wrongly
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word: wrong-minded
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: wrong-mindedly
sense: Terms derived from wrong
word: wrong-mindedness
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word: wrongness
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word: wrong on so many levels
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word: wrong rook pawn
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word: wrong side
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word: wrong side of town
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word: wrong-take
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word: wrong take
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word: wrong-way driver