Erring

Synonyms for "erring" (71 found)

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Closest matches (15)

aberrant abroad adrift amiss askew astrayat faultawry backsliding carnal corrupt deceptive defective delusive

Verb(1 words)

blunder

Strong matches (21)

Verb(6 words)

depart deviate err fallible faulty immoral

devious distorted errant erroneous fallacious fallen false flawed fleshly frail heretical heterodox illogical illusory

Adjective(1 words)

error-prone

Related words (35)

impure infirm lapsednot rightnot trueoff out peccant perverse perverted prodigal recidivist self-contradictory straying transgression unchaste unclean unfactual ungodly unorthodox

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unproved unrighteous unsaintly untrue unvirtuous wanton wayward weak wide wrong

Verb(5 words)

misjudge mistaken stray unethical wrongful

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

adjective deviation error fault mistakemoral descriptor

More specific

11 entries

bias blunder fallacyfaulty reasoningfaulty_reasoningimmoral actmiscalculate misinterpret misinterpretationmistaken inferenceunethical behavior

Collocations

10 entries

erring conducterring from evidenceerring from the trutherring in calculationerring in interpretationerring in judgmenterring inferenceerring judgmenterring policyerring student

Inflections

4 entries

erred errsmore erringmost erring

Derivations

6 entries

err errancy errant erringly erroneous error

similar

1 entries

fallible

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

[…] these errings and strayings are here, according to the language of Scripture, compared to those of sheep, and lost sheep.

Source: wiktionary

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