Wrong

/ˈɹɒŋ/

Synonyms for "wrong" (530 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (106)

abandoned aberrancy aberrant aberration abnormal abnormality abominable abomination abroad abuse abusive accursed adrift afflict afield aggrieveall abroadall offall wetall wrong

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amiss apocryphal arrant askew astrayat faultatrocious atrocity awry bad badly bane base baseless batty befoul befoulmentbeside the markbewitch black blamable blameworthy blasphemous blight breach bum careless censurable cheapcommit an atrocitycondemn corrupt corruption cracked crappy crazed crazy crimecrime against humanitycriminal crooked crucifycrying evilcurse daft damage damnable darkdeadly sindebauched debt deceptive defective defectiveness defile defilement delict delinquency delinquent delusion delusive demented deprave depraved deranged dereliction despoil despoliation destroy destruction detraction detriment deviancy deviant deviational deviative diablerie

Verb(2 words)

aggrieves defame

Noun(4 words)

aggrieving blunder damage deprive

Adjective(2 words)

amiss awry

Adjective(1 words)

detrimental

Strong matches (159)

disadvantage disgrace disgraceful dissatisfactory disserve disservice dissolute distorted distortion distressdo a disservicedo a mischiefdo evildo illdo wrongdo wrong bydo wrong todoom enormity envenom

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errancy errant erring erroneous erroneously erroneousness error evil evildoing evilly execrable failure fallacious fallaciously fallaciousness fallacy false falsely falseness falsity fanciful fault faultful faultfully faultily faultiness faulty felonious felony flagitious flagrant flaw flawed flawednessfly in the ointmentfoul futile genocideget into troublegnominiousgreat wronggrievancegross injusticeguiltyguilty acthamartia harasshardly the thingharm havocheavy sinheinous heresy heretical heterodox heterodoxy hex hurt ignominious ill ill-advised ill-considered ill-seasoned ill-suited ill-timed ill-treat illegal illegality illicit illogical illusion illusory immoral impair impolitic imposition imprecise improper improperly improperness impropriety imprudentin errorinaccurate inadvisable inappropriate inappropriateness inapt inauspicious incongruous inconvenient incorrect incorrectly indecorous indecorously indecorum indignity indiscretion inept inequitable inequitableness inequity inexact inexpedientinexpiable sininfamous infamy infect

Noun(16 words)

erroneous error false fault faulty harm harms ills immoral improperly inaccurate inappropriate inappropriately incorrectincorrect resultsincorrectly

Adjective(12 words)

ethical deviationfalso faulty haywire ill-timedimmoral agentimproperinaccurate chartincorrectincorrect locationincorrect phrasingincorrect term

Adjective(2 words)

false faulty

Adverb(1 words)

incorrectly

Related words (265)

infection infelicitous inferior infraction iniquitous iniquitousness iniquity injure injury injustice inopportune intempestive intrusive invalid irrelevant jinx knavery knavish lapse late

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low lunatic lyingmal a proposmalapropos malefaction malefactory malevolent malfeasance malfeasant maltreat malum menace mendaciousminor wrongmisapplicationmiscarriage of justicemischief misconstruction misdeed misdemeanor misdoing misfeasance misguided misinterpretation misjudgment misleading mistaken mistakenly mistimed mistreat molest monstrousmortal sinnaughty nefarious nonfeasancenot donenot rightnot the thingnot trueobliquity offoff baseoff coloroff the trackoff-base off-color offence offend offense omission oppress outout of lineout of phaseout of placeout of timeout-of-lineoutrage peccadillo peccancy peccant persecute perverse perversion perverted placeplay havoc withplay hob withpoison pollute pollution poor prejudice premature pseudo punk rank raperaw dealregrettable reprehensible reprobacy reprobate rotten sacrilegious savage scandal scandalous scathescrew upself-contradiction self-contradictory shame shameful shameless sinsin of commissionsin of omissionsinfulsinful actsinfulness sinister slipsnake in the grassspecious straying taint tasteless terriblethe worstthreatentoo latetoo soontorment tort torture toxin transgression trespass trip turn unacceptable unbalanced unbefitting unblessedunder an errorundeserved 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 unsuitability unsuitable untimely untoward untrue untrueness untruly untruth untruthful untruthfulnessunutterable sinunwise unworthy upvenial sinvenom vexation vice vicious vile villainous villainy violate violation wicked wickedness wide woe worry woundwreak havocwreak havoc onwrongdoing wrongful wrongfully wrongfulness wrongly wrongness

Noun(22 words)

injure injustice injusticeslegal injurymiscalling misdeed misdiagnosing misidentifying mistake nonsense offense oppress shameful unethical unethically unfit unsuitable untrue wrongdoing wrongful

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wrongfulness wrongly

Adjective(4 words)

injurious unfit unjust unsuitable

Verb(2 words)

misdoes mispronounced

Adjective(5 words)

proper ssnunethical practiceungrammatical unseasonable untimely

Adverb(1 words)

wrongly

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

20 entries

act action adverb behavior deeddo byerrorethical violationexpressive interjectionfalsehood handle immorality inaccuracy inappropriateness injury injustice

Showing 16 of 20 words.

More specific

34 entries

abuse assault cheat defrauderroneous claimethics violationfalse claimfaulty measurementfraudill-timed interventionimmoral actimproperly inaccuracy inappropriatelyincorrect answerincorrect assertion

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Collocations

20 entries

civil wrongcompletely wrongdead wronggo wronggrave wronghistorical wronglegal wrongmoral wrongmorally wrongutterly wrongwrong actwrong answerwrong conclusionwrong datawrong interpretationwrong method

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Inflections

7 entries

more wrongmost wrongwronged wronger wrongest wronging wrongs

Derivations

12 entries

wrongdoer wrongdoing wronged wronger wrongest wrongful wrongfully wrongfulness wronging wrongly wrongness wrongs

Antonyms

3 entries

right

similar

24 entries

base condemnable criminal deplorable erroneous evil fallacious false immoral improper inaccurate inappropriate inopportune inside malfunctioning misguided

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Translations

139 translations across 75 languages.

American Sign Language

1 entries

Y@Chin-PalmBack adj (incorrect)

Arabic

4 entries

خَاطِئ adj (incorrect)
خَطَأ adj (incorrect)
غلطان adj (incorrect)
غلطان adj (incorrect)

Armenian

1 entries

սխալ adj (incorrect)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

səhv adj (incorrect)
yanlış adj (incorrect)

Bashkir

1 entries

яңылыш adj (incorrect)

Belarusian

1 entries

непра́вільны adj (incorrect)

Bulgarian

2 entries

гре́шен adj (incorrect)
неправилен adj (incorrect)

Burmese

1 entries

မှား adj (incorrect)

Catalan

3 entries

equivocat adj (incorrect)
erroni adj (incorrect)
incorrecte adj (incorrect)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

錯 /错 adj (incorrect)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

錯 /错 adj (incorrect)

Czech

2 entries

chybný adj (incorrect)
nesprávný adj (incorrect)

Danish

1 entries

forkert adj (incorrect)

Dutch

4 entries

fout adj (incorrect)
mis adj (incorrect)
onjuist adj (incorrect)
verkeerd adj (incorrect)

Esperanto

1 entries

malĝusta adj (incorrect)

Finnish

1 entries

väärä adj (incorrect)

French

4 entries

erroné adj (incorrect)
fautif adj (incorrect)
faux adj (incorrect)
incorrect adj (incorrect)

Gagauz

1 entries

yanlış adj (incorrect)

Georgian

2 entries

არასწორი adj (incorrect)
მცდარი adj (incorrect)

German

2 entries

falsch adj (incorrect)
verkehrt adj (incorrect)

Greek

3 entries

εσφαλμένος adj (incorrect)
λάθος adj (incorrect)
λανθασμένος adj (incorrect)

Hebrew

1 entries

לא נכון adj (incorrect)

Hindi

3 entries

अशुद्ध adj (incorrect)
ग़लत adj (incorrect)
त्रुटिपूर्ण adj (incorrect)

Hungarian

3 entries

hibás adj (incorrect)
rossz adj (incorrect)
téves adj (incorrect)

Icelandic

2 entries

rangur adj (incorrect)
óréttur adj (incorrect)

Indonesian

2 entries

keliru adj (incorrect)
salah adj (incorrect)

Interlingua

2 entries

erronee adj (incorrect)
incorrecte adj (incorrect)

Irish

1 entries

contráilte adj (incorrect)

Italian

4 entries

errato adj (incorrect)
erroneo adj (incorrect)
sbagliato adj (incorrect)
scorretto adj (incorrect)

Japanese

3 entries

誤った adj (incorrect)
違った adj (incorrect)
間違った adj (incorrect)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

rabés adj (incorrect)

Kazakh

1 entries

теріс adj (incorrect)

Khmer

1 entries

ខុស adj (incorrect)

Korean

1 entries

그른 adj (incorrect)

Kumyk

1 entries

янгылыш adj (incorrect)

Latin

3 entries

erroneus adj (incorrect)
falsus adj (incorrect)
perperus adj (incorrect)

Latvian

2 entries

kļūdains adj (incorrect)
nepareizs adj (incorrect)

Lithuanian

4 entries

blogas adj (incorrect)
klaidingas adj (incorrect)
nekorektiškas adj (incorrect)
neteisingas adj (incorrect)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries

njepšawy adj (incorrect)
wopacny adj (incorrect)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

falsch adj (incorrect)

Malay

1 entries

salah adj (incorrect)

Marathi

4 entries

चुकीचा adj (incorrect)
चुकीची adj (incorrect)
चुकीचे adj (incorrect)
चूक adj (incorrect)

Mongolian

1 entries

буруу adj (incorrect)

Norwegian

2 entries

galt adj (incorrect)
uriktig adj (incorrect)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

feil adj (incorrect)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

feil adj (incorrect)

Old English

1 entries

wōh adj (incorrect)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

یالان adj (incorrect)

Persian

1 entries

غلط adj (incorrect)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

faulsch adj (incorrect)

Polish

4 entries

błędny adj (incorrect)
mylny adj (incorrect)
nieprawidłowy adj (incorrect)
zły adj (incorrect)

Portuguese

2 entries

errado adj (incorrect)
incorreto adj (incorrect)

Quechua

1 entries

panta adj (incorrect)

Romanian

2 entries

greșit adj (incorrect)
incorect adj (incorrect)

Russian

3 entries

неве́рный adj (incorrect)
непра́вильный adj (incorrect)
оши́бочный adj (incorrect)

Sanskrit

1 entries

त्रुटिपूर्ण adj (incorrect)

Scots

1 entries

wrang adj (incorrect)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

ceàrr adj (incorrect)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries

kriv adj (incorrect)
pogrešan adj (incorrect)
pogrješan adj (incorrect)

Sicilian

1 entries

sbagghiatu adj (incorrect)

Slovene

1 entries

napačen adj (incorrect)

Spanish

4 entries

equivocado adj (incorrect)
errado adj (incorrect)
erróneo adj (incorrect)
falso adj (incorrect)

Swedish

3 entries

fel adj (incorrect)
felaktig adj (incorrect)
inkorrekt adj (incorrect)

Telugu

1 entries

తప్పు adj (incorrect)

Thai

1 entries

ผิด adj (incorrect)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

kranki adj (incorrect)

Turkish

2 entries

hatalı adj (incorrect)
yanlış adj (incorrect)

Ukrainian

1 entries

непра́вильний adj (incorrect)

Upper Sorbian

3 entries

njeprawy adj (incorrect)
njewěrny adj (incorrect)
wopačny adj (incorrect)

Urdu

1 entries

غلط adj (incorrect)

Vietnamese

2 entries

không đúng adj (incorrect)
sai adj (incorrect)

Volapük

1 entries

neverätik adj (incorrect)

Waray-Waray

2 entries

sala adj (incorrect)
sayop adj (incorrect)

West-Frisian

2 entries

ferkeard adj (incorrect)
fout adj (incorrect)

Yiddish

2 entries

נישט ריכטיק adj (incorrect)
פֿאַלש adj (incorrect)

Sample sentences

34 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The war on Iraq is a volatile subject of political debate; any wrong word and a heated argument could spark.

Source: tatoeba (1936)

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Source: tatoeba (2339)

You took the wrong key.

Source: tatoeba (2416)

Who said that? It's totally wrong!

Source: tatoeba (2463)

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