Meaning

Incorrect or untrue..

Definitions by Sense

1. Incorrect or untrue.
2. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
3. Immoral, not good, bad.
4. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
5. Not working; out of order.
6. (clothing) Designed to be worn or placed inward.
7. Twisted; wry.
8. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.

Example Sentences

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?

In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]

Throughout this time, Mystic Wolmar has been trying his luck and mostly getting it wrong - especially in 2006, when he got virtually everything wrong, including the departure of Tony Blair.

You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.

It is wrong to lie.

Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!

Word Forms

• more wrong
• most wrong
• wrongs
• wronging
• wronged

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When Should You Use Wrong?

Use wrong when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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