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[ in-kuh-rekt ] / ˌɪn kəˈrɛkt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR incorrect ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot correct as to fact; inaccurate; wrong: an incorrect statement. improper, unbecoming, or inappropriate: incorrect behavior; incorrect attire. not correct in form, use, or manner: an incorrect copy. Origin of incorrect1400–50; late Middle English <Latin incorrectus not corrected. See in-3, correct SYNONYMS FOR incorrect1 erroneous, inexact; untrue. 2 unsuitable. 3 faulty. SEE SYNONYMS FOR incorrect ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM incorrectin·cor·rect·ly, adverbin·cor·rect·ness, nounWords nearby incorrectincorporator, in corpore, incorporeal, incorporeity, incorr., incorrect, incorrigible, incorrupt, incorruptible, incorruption, Incoterms Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for incorrectBecause of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph. Did Bad Weather Bring Down AirAsia 8501?|Clive Irving|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is even worse when online actors “dox”—or publicly release the private information of—the incorrect person. Web Sleuths Get It Wrong Again in Ferguson|Tim Mak|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST And to say the protests have turned violent would also be incorrect. Ferguson Chaos Is Only Just Beginning|Justin Glawe|August 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Applying the apartheid label is incorrect—and is also confusing because it obscures the tyranny which is in force. Don’t Accuse Israel of Apartheid|Benjamin Pogrund|July 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She accused Ostrovsky of reporting in an “incorrect way,” but added he might be released shortly. Putin’s Men in Ukraine Seize U.S. Journalist|Jamie Dettmer|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Incorrect positions during sleep cause many stooped shoulders. The Woman Beautiful|Helen Follett Stevans Illustration Table page number 79/97 has been corrected, incorrect in book. Chats on Oriental China|J. F. Blacker The most vague and incorrect notions prevail in respect to traveling in South America. The Andes and the Amazon|James Orton If so the incorrect numbering of the edition of that date, the actual Second Edition, may be readily accounted for. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow|Thomas J. Wise When he handed it back to me, I was surprised to see that the incorrect number was mysteriously changed to the proper one. Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft|Henry Ridgely Evans
British Dictionary definitions for incorrect
adjectivefalse; wrongan incorrect calculation not fitting or properincorrect behaviour Derived forms of incorrectincorrectly, adverbincorrectness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to incorrecterroneous, inaccurate, inappropriate, mistaken, improper, unsound, untrue, unreliable, faulty, false, flawed, imprecise, inexact, out, specious, unseemly, unsuitable, wide of the mark, counterfactual, unfitting |