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(adj)
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
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Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
Incorrect or untrue.
(n)
(countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
Badly or wrongly conceived.
An error.
(with a copula verb, often with about) Having an incorrect belief.
wrong or unjust
Misled or mistaken.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
Having one or more defects.
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
Not suitable.
Having a flaw or imperfection.
Of low quality.
Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
unsuccessful
Not sound, particularly:
Failed, not successful.
Lacking something essential; often construed with in.
Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.
Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
False; not true.
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
False, not authentic, not genuine.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine.
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Free from error; true; accurate.
Deceptive or misleading.
(informal) Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
(v)
(transitive) To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
(chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
Imperfectly conforming; exceeding or falling short in some respect.
Alternative form of off base.
Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
(telecommunications) Containing one or more errors; faulty.
(nonstandard) Synonym of erroneous.
Providing incorrect information; misleading.
Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting bribes.
(nonstandard or obsolete) Uncorrected; containing errors that an editor would correct.
Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
(now rare) Improper, not suited for its use or application; inappropriate.
A knight-errant.
Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
Full of mistakes.
Relating to misinformation.
A county of Yulin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, China.
Having been flung in error or ineptly.
(of a person) Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
Not giving the truth; providing untrue facts; lying.
(uncommon) Characterised or marked by error(s).
Having false ideas; misleading.
Tending to cause errors.
Obsolete spelling of wrong. [Incorrect or untrue.]
(idiomatic) (Very) inaccurate.
Relating to misrepresentation.
(rare) Untruthful; lying.
(humorous, rare, nonstandard) Totally wrong.
Not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful.
Wrongly or badly informed.
(UK dialectal, Scotland, especially law) Wrongful; not right; unjust; illegal.
Perceiving incorrectly.
Constituting misinstruction; instructing wrongly.
Alternative form of wrongminded. [Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.]
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.
Alternative form of error-prone. [In the habit of making errors.]
Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.
Alternative spelling of wrongheaded. [Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.]
Apt or prone to cause blunders; troublesome; difficult; problematic.
(archaic) On the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
Alternative form of mistakable. [Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.]
(music) A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.
Synonym of misleading.
(linguistics) Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
Prone to make blunders.
Wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
Being or relating to a misconstruction.
Interpreted erroneously, understood incorrectly; misunderstood.
Marked by wrong or wrong-doing; characteristically wrong in essence or manner.
(obsolete, rare) Holding the wrong opinion or belief.
Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
(colloquial, idiomatic) Wrong, broken; specifically:
Employing or relating to misdirection.
(US, law) Of a product, containing incorrect information on the label that would tend to deceive consumers as to any aspect of the product.
Of a person, etc.: that commits or has committed an offence or a sin; blameworthy, culpable, offending, sinful, sinning.
Being physically or emotionally injurious; characterized by repeated violence or other abuse.
Of a bad or wrong nature; malformed.
Aimed amiss or wrongly.
(nonstandard, malapropism) Alternative form of misleading. [Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.]
(law) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of torts.