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(adj)
Not correct; erroneous or wrong.
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Incorrect or untrue.
Misled or mistaken.
(v)
(electronics, telecommunications, of a decoder) To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
Not comprehended correctly.
Badly or wrongly conceived.
(n)
A mistake as to the meaning of something or a specific point of view; erroneous interpretation or comprehension; misconception.
Containing an error; inaccurate.
Mistaken or incorrect; not accurate.
(computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
Alternative spelling of wrongheaded. [Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.]
wrong or unjust
Having one or more defects.
(obsolete, transitive) To appropriate; to assign (something, to someone) as a possession or prerogative.
Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.
Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
(British, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
Having a flaw or imperfection.
(of a statement, matter, or thing) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.
Not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful.
(British, transitive) To exempt from (often military) duty because of injury or ill health.
Not sound, particularly:
unsuccessful
Failed, not successful.
To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.
Lost; disoriented, put in the wrong place.
False; not true.
(transitive, rare) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
(of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
A confusion, mistake, muddle or misunderstanding.
False, not authentic, not genuine.
Confused, astonished.
Having been a victim of some form of abuse, most commonly child abuse or domestic violence.
(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
Having been tricked or deceived.
Free from error; true; accurate.
Deceptive or misleading.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
Having been comprehended.
(informal) In a serious romantic relationship.
(of computer languages or code) Executed directly, rather than via a compiled binary representation.
not caught with the senses or the mind
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
(N)
a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Damian Harris.
(transitive) To trick; to deceive.
To make an incorrect interpretation; to misunderstand.
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
(transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
(intransitive, formal) To make a mistake.
To swindle, deceive, or trick.
To direct something wrongly
To make an error in judging, to incorrectly assess.
(transitive) To give or deliver false, fake, or misleading information to.
(transitive, intransitive) To calculate incorrectly.
Alternative form of off base.
(chiefly predicative) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.
Being affected by delusions.
Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
(informal) Acting unwisely.
(adv)
Alternative form of mistakenly. [Wrongly; erroneously.]
An incorrect reading.
Interpreted erroneously, understood incorrectly; misunderstood.
To read wrongly; misconstrue; misinterpret; mistake the sense or significance of.
(transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
identified incorrectly
Incorrectly.
An instance of something being misconstrued; a misconstrual.
An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.
(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
Misunderstood.
Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.
confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.
The act of making surmises.
To combine or mix together.
Having false ideas; misleading.
(transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
Having prejudices.
(Canada, US, informal) In a state of personal or emotional conflict.
(transitive) To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice.
Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge; unmindful.
An incorrect understanding of something.
Caused to feel surprise, amazement or wonder, or showing an emotion due to an unexpected event.
Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder (somebody); to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand
Ruffled; upset and embarrassed.
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
(transitive) To mistake the identity of (something or someone).
Distrustful or tending to suspect.
An instance of misinterpreting.