wrong
adjEtymology
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Definitions
Incorrect or untrue.
- Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
- Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]
- You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone?
Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
- You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
Immoral, not good, bad.
- It is wrong to lie.
- Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!
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Improper
Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
- A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
Not working
Not working; out of order.
- Something is wrong with my cellphone.
- Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
Designed to be worn or placed inward.
- the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
Twisted
Twisted; wry.
- a wrong nose
In a way that isn't right
In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
- I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
- You're doing it all wrong!
- `Then, just as I was, I walked out of the house and went to the recruiting-office, stating my age wrong.'
Something that is immoral or not good.
- Injustice is a heinous wrong.
An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
- Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
- I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong.
The opposite of right
The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
- Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.
To treat unjustly
To treat unjustly; to injure or harm; to do wrong by.
- The dealer wronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
- Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
- ... 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.
To slander
To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
The neighborhood
- synonyminjurious
- synonymunjust
- synonymfaulty
- synonymdetrimental
- synonymunfit
- synonymunsuitable
- synonymfalse
- antonymright
- neighborwronged
- neighborwrung
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at wrong. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at wrong. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at wrong
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA