Error

Noun

 * 1)  A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
 * 2)  A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
 * 3)  The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
 * 4)  A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
 * 5)  One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.

Verb

 * 1)  To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
 * 2)  To show or contain an error or fault.
 * 3)  To err.

Adjectives for Error
manifest; inextricable; fatal; capital; successful; intellectual; deep-seated; common; vulgar; sweet; silly; trivial; apparent; gross; earthly; popular; strange; destructive; outstanding; biting; feeble; shallow; weak; mountainous; egregious; universal; ignoble; bare; venial; tactical; childish; unavoidable; curious; annoying; unguessed; statistical; innumerable (pi); scientific; serviceable; crumbling; pernicious; wild; warm; fantastic; glaring; opposite; chronic; dietetic; pleasing; previous; petty; profound; matrimonial; irretrievable; infinite; fundamental; unwelcome; counter; haughty; serious; damned; tempest-winged; typographical; monstrous; unfortunate; irremediable.

Verbs for Error
abound in—s; acknowledge—; adhere to— aggravate—; atone for—; befog—; betray into—; build on—; cast out—; chafe at— claim—; combat—; conquer—; correct— counteract—; debate—; detect—; dispel— escape—; expiate—; expose—; fall into— forsake—; involve in—; lead into—; learn from—; lift above—; minimize—; neutralize—; overrule—; produce—; rebuke—; rectify—; reduce—; regret—; reject—; relinquish—; remove—; retrieve—; root in—; rue—; sense—; uncover—; unveil—; utter .—; vanquish—; war against—; ward off— wrestle with—; —contaminates; —deludes —destroys; —impedes; —misleads.

Synonyms for Error

 * blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko
 * oversight, omission, fallacy, delusion, deviation, fall, transgression, indiscretion.

Antonyms for Error
correctness, certainty, certitude, correction, precision, truth, accuracy.

Related terms

 * err
 * errant
 * erroneous
 * erroneously

Derived terms

 * absolute error
 * compass error
 * error bar
 * error catastrophe
 * error correction
 * error handler
 * error handling
 * error in judgement
 * error in judgment
 * error of judgement
 * error of judgment


 * error message
 * error-ridden
 * in error
 * margin of error
 * measurement error
 * plaintiff in error
 * sampling error
 * syntax error
 * trial and error
 * typographical error
 * unforced error

Thesaurus
blooper, blunder, bobble, boggle, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob, botch, breach, bug, bull, bungle, byte, catachresis, clanger, clerical error, clumsy performance, command pulses, commands, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, contorting, control signals, controlled quantity, correcting signals, corrigendum, crime, crime against humanity, data, deadly sin, delinquency, delusion, dereliction, disgrace, distortion, eisegesis, emanatism, enormity, erratum, erroneously, erroneousness, error in judgment, error signals, etourderie, evil, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, false doctrine, falsehood, falseness, falsity, fault, faute, faux pas, feedback pulses, feedback signals, felony, film data, flagitiousness, flaw, flub, fluff, foozle, foul-up, fumble, gaffe, garbling, gaucherie, genocide, gloss, goof, guilty act, hash, heavy sin, heresy, hexadecimal system, howler, human error, hylotheism, illusion, impropriety, in error, inaccuracy, incorrect, incorrectly, indecorum, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infamy, information, iniquity, injudiciousness, injury, injustice, input data, input quantity, instructions, knavery, lapse, literal, machine language, malefaction, malentendu, malfeasance, malobservation, malum, mess, message, minor wrong, misapplication, misappreciation, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, miscarriage, miscitation, miscomputation, misconception, misconduct, misconjecture, misconstruction, miscount, miscue, misdeal, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misestimation, misevaluation, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition, misfeasance, misidentification, misintelligence, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misplay, misprint, misquotation, misreading, misrendering, misreport, miss, misstatement, misstep, mistake, mistaken, mistakenly, mistranslation, misunderstanding, misuse, misuse of words, misvaluation, mortal sin, muff, multiple messages, near-miss, noise, nonfeasance, numeric data, obliquity, octal system, off day, offense, omission, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, outrage, oversight, pantheism, peccadillo, peccancy, perversion, play, polar data, poor judgment, punch-card data, random data, rectangular data, reference quantity, reprobacy, rock, ruly English, sad work, scandal, screamer, shame, signals, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, single messages, skewed judgment, slip, slipup, solecism, squeezing, stumble, tort, torturing, transgression, trespass, trip, twisting, typo, typographical error, unorganized data, untruth, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, visible-speech data, wickedness, wrenching, wrong, wrong construction, wrong impression, wrongdoing

Etymology
From errour:, from  error:, infinitive of erro:. Cognate with undefined:,  undefined:. More at.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: fejl, fejltagelse, forseelse
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, σφάλμα
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: mistök, villa, skyssa
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:, , earráid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, ayamari),  (, machigai)


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: هه‌ڵه‌
 * Latvian: kļūda
 * Lithuanian: klaida
 * Luhya:
 * Old Irish:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: napaka
 * Sotho: phoso
 * Spanish:
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 * Turkish:, ,  ,  yanılgı,  suç


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, gosa)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: هه‌ڵه‌


 * Latvian: novirze
 * Lithuanian: paklaida
 * Polish: błąd pomiaru
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: napaka
 * Spanish:


 * Icelandic:


 * Japanese: (erā),  (, shissaku)


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: procedurefout
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: napaka

Derived terms

 * error out

Noun

 * 1) wandering
 * 2) wavering, uncertainty
 * 3) error, mistake, delusion
 * 4) solecism

Descendants

 * English:

Noun

 * 1) An error

Synonyms

 * equivocación
 * yerro

Related terms

 * errar