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wrong

English

  1. 🔊 based on or acting or judging in error
    “it is wrong to think that way”
  2. 🔊 used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward
    “socks worn wrong side out”
  3. 🔊 not in accord with established usage or procedure
    “the wrong medicine”
  4. 🔊 contrary to conscience or morality or law
    “it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor”
  5. 🔊 not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
    “said all the wrong things”
  6. 🔊 not correct
    “an incorrect calculation”
  7. 🔊 characterized by errors
    “he submitted a faulty report”
  8. 🔊 badly timed
    “an ill-timed intervention”
  9. 🔊 any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right
  10. 🔊 that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law
    “he feels that you are in the wrong”
  11. 🔊 in an inaccurate manner
    “he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly”
  12. 🔊 treat unjustly

Spanish

  1. 🔊 entuerto wrong, injustice
  2. 🔊 incorrecto wrong, incorrect
  3. 🔊 desacertado wrong, off the mark

Similar words

legal injury damage wrongfulness faulty incorrect improper incorrect ill-timed unseasonable untimely incorrect incorrectly wrongly abandoned aberrancy aberrant aberration abnormal abominable abomination abroad abuse accursed adrift