Wrong

Adjective

 * 1) Incorrect or untrue.
 * Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
 * 1) * 1592: William Shakespeare, Richard III; Act II, Scene I, line 54. &mdash; Among this princely heap, if any here By false intelligence or wrong surmise Hold me a foe...
 * 2) Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
 * You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
 * 1) Immoral, not good, bad.
 * It is wrong to lie.
 * 1) Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
 * A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
 * 1) Not working; out of order.
 * Something is wrong with my cellphone.
 * 1) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth

Synonyms

 * injurious
 * unjust
 * faulty
 * detrimental
 * unfit
 * unsuitable

Derived terms

 * wrength
 * wrongly
 * wrongful

Antonyms

 * right

Adverb

 * 1) In a way that isn't right; done incorrectly; wrongly.
 * I spelled several names wrong in my address book.

Noun

 * 1) Something that is immoral or not good.
 * Injustice is a heinous wrong.
 * 1) The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. (Or is it the wronged?)
 * 2) * 1592: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, Scene I, line 101. &mdash; I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong.
 * 3) The opposite of right; something which is wrong, particularly injustice.
 * 4) * 1607: William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene III, line 28. &mdash; Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.

Verb

 * 1) To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
 * 2) * The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
 * 3) * 1591: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 109. &mdash; Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
 * 4) To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
 * 5) * 1597: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, Scene I, line 121. &mdash; ... 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.
 * 6) To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
 * 7) * 1598: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II, line 121. &mdash; 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.

Adjectives for Wrong
avenged; uncomplaining; revenging; cruel; deadly; great; bitter; ruthless; grievous; deep; hideous; fancied; intrinsic; culminating; enforced; irrevocable; willful; private; petty; perfidious; inevitable; early; fierce trifling; illegal; foul; heinous; hoarded irreparable; unredeemed; diabolic; mutual deplored; inexpiable; accumulated; brazen; abstract; secret; drastic.

Verbs for Wrong
amend—; avenge—; challenge—; combat—; defeat—; denounce—; discern—; efface—; expose—; extenuate—; heal—; implant—; intend—; perpetuate—; redress—; reform —; remedy—; repent—; reproach—; reveal—; sustain—; —blemishes; —blots; — corrupts; —harasses; —injures; —mars; — offends; —oppresses; —weighs upon.

Adverbs for Wrong
utterly; absolutely; altogether; singularly; curiously; completely; wickedly; mischievously; deliberately; blunderingly; knowingly; outrageously; scandalously; brutally; cruelly; fatally.

Adverbs for Wrong
grievously; irreparably; deeply; grossly; iniquitously; ignominiously; insidiously; dishonestly; treacherously; egregiously; ruthlessly; diabolically; secretly.

Thesaurus
abandoned, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, abnormal, abominable, abomination, abroad, abuse, accursed, adrift, afflict, afield, aggrieve, all abroad, all off, all wet, all wrong, amiss, arrant, askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atrocity, awry, bad, badly, bane, base, batty, befoul, befoulment, beside the mark, bewitch, black, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blight, breach, bum, censurable, commit an atrocity, condemn, corrupt, corruption, cracked, crappy, crazed, crazy, crime, crime against humanity, criminal, crucify, crying evil, curse, daft, damage, damnable, dark, deadly sin, debauched, debt, deceptive, defective, defectiveness, defile, defilement, delict, delinquency, delinquent, delusion, delusive, demented, deprave, depraved, deranged, dereliction, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detriment, deviancy, deviant, deviational, deviative, diablerie, disadvantage, disgrace, disgraceful, dissatisfactory, disserve, disservice, dissolute, distorted, distortion, distress, do a disservice, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, enormity, envenom, errancy, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, erroneousness, error, evil, evildoing, evilly, execrable, failure, fallacious, fallaciously, fallaciousness, fallacy, false, falsely, falseness, falsity, fault, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faultiness, faulty, felonious, felony, flagitious, flagrant, flaw, flawed, flawedness, foul, futile, genocide, get into trouble, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, hamartia, harass, hardly the thing, harm, havoc, heavy sin, heinous, heresy, heretical, heterodox, heterodoxy, hex, hurt, ignominious, ill, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, ill-treat, illegal, illegality, illogical, illusion, illusory, immoral, impair, impolitic, imposition, improper, improperly, improperness, impropriety, in error, inaccurate, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, incorrectly, indecorous, indecorously, indiscretion, inept, inequitable, inequitableness, inequity, inexpedient, inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy, infect, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquitousness, iniquity, injure, injury, injustice, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irrelevant, jinx, knavery, knavish, lapse, late, low, lunatic, mal a propos, malapropos, malefaction, malefactory, malevolent, malfeasance, malfeasant, maltreat, malum, menace, minor wrong, misapplication, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misconstruction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misguided, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistaken, mistakenly, mistimed, mistreat, molest, monstrous, mortal sin, naughty, nefarious, nonfeasance, not done, not right, not the thing, not true, obliquity, off, off base, off the track, off-base, off-color, offend, offense, omission, oppress, out, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of time, out-of-line, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, peccant, persecute, perverse, perversion, perverted, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, poor, prejudice, premature, punk, rank, raw deal, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, rotten, sacrilegious, savage, scandal, scandalous, scathe, self-contradiction, self-contradictory, shame, shameful, shameless, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful, sinful act, sinfulness, sinister, slip, specious, straying, taint, terrible, the worst, threaten, too late, too soon, torment, tort, torture, toxin, transgression, trespass, trip, unbalanced, unbefitting, unblessed, under an error, undeserved, undesirable, undue, undueness, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfactual, unfairness, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unholy, unjust, unjustness, unkind, unlawful, unlawfulness, unlucky, unmeet, unmeetness, unmerited, unorthodox, unorthodoxy, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpropitious, unproved, unready, unrighteous, unrightful, unripe, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, untrue, untrueness, untruly, untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, unwise, unworthy, up, venial sin, venom, vexation, vicious, vile, villainous, villainy, violate, violation, wicked, wickedness, wide, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrongdoing, wrongful, wrongfully, wrongfulness, wrongly, wrongness

Etymology
From, from wrang:, of  origin, from  rangr:, *undefined:, from , from , from. Cognate with vrang:,  wrang:. More at.

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: خطأ
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 不對, 不对
 * Croatian: pogrješan,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: falsch, verkehrt
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ग़लत
 * Icelandic:, óréttur
 * Indonesian: salah, keliru
 * Interlingua: incorrecte, erronee
 * Italian:, ,  ,
 * Japanese: 間違う, 誤る, 違う


 * Lithuanian: neteisingas, klaidingas, blogas, nekorektiškas
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English: ,
 * Persian: غلط
 * Polish: błędny, mylny
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, неверный, ошибочный
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceàrr
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: తప్పు (tappu)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu: غلط
 * Volapük: neverätik


 * French:
 * Icelandic: hafa rangt fyrir sér, hafa á röngu að standa


 * Russian: неправый


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, , ,
 * Icelandic: ranglátur,,  siðferðilega rangur,  ósiðlegur,  ósiðsamur
 * Indonesian: salah, keliru
 * Interlingua: illicite, immoral, mal
 * Japanese: 悪い(わるい,warui), よくない(yokunai)


 * Lithuanian: nemoralus, amoralus, nedoras, nedorovingas
 * Old English: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceàrr
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తప్పుడు (tappuDu)
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Indonesian: salah, keliru
 * Interlingua: improprie
 * Japanese: 悪い(わるい,warui), よくない(yokunai),不適当な(ふてきとうな,futekitō na),不適切な(ふてきせつな,futekisetsuna)
 * Lithuanian: nepadorus, nesąžiningas, neprideramas, netinkamas
 * Old English: ,


 * Polish: niewłaściwy
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ceàrr
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: సరికాని (sarikaani)
 * Turkish:, ,


 * Croatian: neispravan
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: vera að
 * Indonesian: salah, keliru
 * Interlingua: a torto


 * Japanese: 具合が悪くて (ぐあいがわるくて,guai ga warukute),故障で(こしょうで, koshōde),調子が狂って(ちょうしがくるって,chōshi ga kurutte)
 * Lithuanian: nedirbantis, neveikiantis, sugedęs
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: hatalı, bozuk


 * Finnish:


 * Portuguese: errado


 * : pelih

Quotations

 * 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium
 * that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.

Adverb

 * American Sign Language:, TH mouthing
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: rangt, vitlaust,  kolvitlaust
 * Interlingua: incorrectemente, erroneemente, a torto


 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: incorretamente, erroneamente, erradamente
 * Russian: неправильно, не так
 * Scots: wrang
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: narobe
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Dutch: misstand, wantoestand , onrechtmatige daad
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old English:


 * Scottish Gaelic:, coire
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: väärä (mielipide / kanta / näkemys)


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Scottish Gaelic:, coire
 * Swedish:


 * : injuria, crimine, peccato, torto
 * : crime, pecado

Verb

 * Dutch: benadelen, onrecht doen/aandoen
 * Finnish: tehdä väärin, tehdä vääryyttä


 * French: nuire
 * Icelandic: gera rangt til


 * Finnish: tehdä vääryyttä
 * French: léser


 * Icelandic: beita ranglæti


 * Dutch: onbillijk beoordelen


 * Finnish: tehdä vääryyttä


 * : prejudicar, offender
 * : lesar, prejudicar, ofender

Derived terms

 * awrong
 * bark up the wrong tree
 * civil wrong
 * go down the wrong way
 * go wrong
 * in the wrong
 * my country, right or wrong
 * not that there's anything wrong with that
 * put a foot wrong
 * rub somebody the wrong way
 * self-wrong
 * start off on the wrong foot
 * two wrongs don't make a right
 * two wrongs make a right
 * wrong side of bed
 * wrong 'un
 * wrongdoing


 * wronger
 * wrong-foot
 * wrongful
 * wrongfully
 * wronghead
 * wrong-headed
 * wrongless
 * wrongly
 * wrongness
 * wrong number
 * wrongous
 * wrong side of the tracks
 * wrong side out
 * wrong-timed
 * wrong way
 * wrong-way concurrency

Anagrams

 * grown

Noun

 * 1)  wreath, a ring made of two strips of cloth intertwined used on top of helmets to soften any blow

Verb


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