wrong
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: more wrong
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wrong
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more wrong
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wrong
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: wrongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wrongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wronging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wronged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wronged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Incorrect or untrue.
pos: adj
examples: Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]
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?
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. […]
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.
gloss: Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
pos: adj
examples: You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
gloss: Immoral, not good, bad.
pos: adj
examples: It is wrong to lie.
Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!
gloss: Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
pos: adj
examples: A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
gloss: Not working; out of order.
pos: adj
examples: Something is wrong with my cellphone.
Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
gloss: Designed to be worn or placed inward.
pos: adj
examples: the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
gloss: Twisted; wry.
pos: adj
examples: a wrong nose
gloss: In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
You're doing it all wrong!
`Then, just as I was, I walked out of the house and went to the recruiting-office, stating my age wrong.'
gloss: Something that is immoral or not good.
pos: noun
examples: Injustice is a heinous wrong.
gloss: An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
pos: noun
examples: Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
gloss: The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
pos: noun
examples: I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong.
gloss: The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
pos: noun
examples: Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
gloss: To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
pos: verb
examples: The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
gloss: To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
pos: verb
examples: ... 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.
gloss: To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Synonyms: injurious
unjust
faulty
detrimental
unfit
unsuitable
false
Antonyms: right
Related words: wronged
wrung
Derived words: in the wrong
Translations:
lang: American Sign Language
word: Y@Chin-PalmBack
lang: Arabic
word: خَاطِئ
roman: ḵāṭiʔ
lang: Arabic
word: خَطَأ
roman: ḵaṭaʔ
lang: Arabic
word: غلطان
roman: ḡálaṭ
lang: Arabic
word: غلطان
roman: ḡalṭān
lang: Armenian
word: սխալ
roman: sxal
lang: Azerbaijani
word: səhv
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yanlış
lang: Bashkir
word: яңылыш
roman: yañılış
lang: Belarusian
word: непра́вільны
roman: njeprávilʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: гре́шен
roman: gréšen
lang: Bulgarian
word: непра́вилен
roman: neprávilen
lang: Burmese
word: မှား
roman: hma:
lang: Catalan
word: incorrecte
lang: Catalan
word: erroni
lang: Catalan
word: equivocat
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 錯 /错
roman: co³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 錯 /错
roman: cuò
lang: Czech
word: chybný
lang: Czech
word: nesprávný
lang: Danish
word: forkert
lang: Dutch
word: fout
lang: Dutch
word: verkeerd
lang: Dutch
word: onjuist
lang: Dutch
word: mis
lang: Esperanto
word: malĝusta
lang: Finnish
word: väärä
lang: French
word: erroné
lang: French
word: incorrect
lang: French
word: fautif
lang: French
word: faux
lang: West-Frisian
word: fout
lang: West-Frisian
word: ferkeard
lang: Gagauz
word: yanlış
lang: Georgian
word: მცდარი
roman: mcdari
lang: Georgian
word: არასწორი
roman: arasc̣ori
lang: German
word: falsch
lang: German
word: verkehrt
lang: Greek
word: λανθασμένος
roman: lanthasménos
lang: Greek
word: λάθος
roman: láthos
lang: Greek
word: εσφαλμένος
roman: esfalménos
lang: Hebrew
word: לא נכון
roman: lo nakhon
lang: Hindi
word: अशुद्ध
roman: aśuddh
lang: Hindi
word: त्रुटिपूर्ण
roman: truṭipūrṇ
lang: Hindi
word: ग़लत
roman: ġalat
lang: Hungarian
word: hibás
lang: Hungarian
word: téves
lang: Hungarian
word: rossz
lang: Icelandic
word: rangur
lang: Icelandic
word: óréttur
lang: Indonesian
word: salah
lang: Indonesian
word: keliru
lang: Interlingua
word: incorrecte
lang: Interlingua
word: erronee
lang: Irish
word: contráilte
lang: Italian
word: sbagliato
lang: Italian
word: errato
lang: Italian
word: erroneo
lang: Italian
word: scorretto
lang: Japanese
word: 間違った
roman: machigatta
lang: Japanese
word: 誤った
roman: ayamatta
lang: Japanese
word: 違った
roman: chigatta
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: rabés
lang: Kazakh
word: теріс
roman: terıs
lang: Khmer
word: ខុស
roman: khos
lang: Korean
word: 그른
roman: geureun
lang: Kumyk
word: янгылыш
roman: yañılış
lang: Latin
word: falsus
lang: Latin
word: perperus
lang: Latin
word: erroneus
lang: Latvian
word: nepareizs
lang: Latvian
word: kļūdains
lang: Lithuanian
word: neteisingas
lang: Lithuanian
word: klaidingas
lang: Lithuanian
word: blogas
lang: Lithuanian
word: nekorektiškas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: falsch
lang: Malay
word: salah
lang: Marathi
word: चूक
roman: cūk
lang: Marathi
word: चुकीचा
roman: cukīcā
lang: Marathi
word: चुकीची
roman: cukīcī
lang: Marathi
word: चुकीचे
roman: cukīce
lang: Mongolian
word: буруу
roman: buruu
lang: Norwegian
word: galt
lang: Norwegian
word: uriktig
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: feil
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: feil
lang: Old English
word: wōh
lang: Persian
word: غلط
roman: ġalat
lang: Plautdietsch
word: faulsch
lang: Polish
word: błędny
lang: Polish
word: mylny
lang: Polish
word: zły
lang: Polish
word: nieprawidłowy
lang: Portuguese
word: errado
lang: Portuguese
word: incorreto
lang: Quechua
word: panta
lang: Romanian
word: greșit
lang: Romanian
word: incorect
lang: Russian
word: непра́вильный
roman: neprávilʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: неве́рный
roman: nevérnyj
lang: Russian
word: оши́бочный
roman: ošíbočnyj
lang: Sanskrit
word: त्रुटिपूर्ण
roman: truṭipūrṇa
lang: Scots
word: wrang
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ceàrr
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pogrješan
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kriv
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pogrešan
lang: Sicilian
word: sbagghiatu
lang: Slovene
word: napačen
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wopacny
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: njepšawy
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: njeprawy
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: wopačny
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: njewěrny
lang: Spanish
word: incorrecto
lang: Spanish
word: falso
lang: Spanish
word: equivocado
lang: Spanish
word: errado
lang: Spanish
word: erróneo
lang: Spanish
word: plancha quemada
lang: Swedish
word: fel
lang: Swedish
word: felaktig
lang: Swedish
word: inkorrekt
lang: Telugu
word: తప్పు
roman: tappu
lang: Thai
word: ผิด
roman: pìt
lang: Tok Pisin
word: kranki
lang: Turkish
word: yanlış
lang: Turkish
word: hatalı
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یالان
roman: yalan
lang: Ukrainian
word: непра́вильний
roman: neprávylʹnyj
lang: Urdu
word: غلط
roman: ġalat
lang: Vietnamese
word: sai
lang: Vietnamese
word: không đúng
lang: Volapük
word: neverätik
lang: Waray-Waray
word: sala
lang: Waray-Waray
word: sayop
lang: Yiddish
word: נישט ריכטיק
roman: nisht rikhtik
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַלש
roman: falsh