wrongadjective
uk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/wrong adjective (NOT CORRECT)
A1 not correct:
A2 If someone is wrong, they are not correct in their judgment or statement about something:
to show by your actions that someone's judgment of you was not correct:
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- I got eight correct answers and two wrong ones in last week's exam.
- On the last question, she guessed wrong.
- He doesn't have the humility to admit when he's wrong.
- I'd marked her down as a Labour Party supporter, but I was completely wrong.
- I'm hopeless at physics, and it's the same with chemistry - I get it all wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- improper
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- mis-
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
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wrong adjective (NOT SUITABLE)
C1 not suitable or correct, or not as it should be:
Something that is wrong is not considered to be socially acceptable or suitable:
B1 If you ask someone what is wrong, you want to know what is worrying or upsetting them:
mainly UK also the wrong way round If something is the wrong way around, the part that should be at the front is at the back:
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- There are fears that the weapons might fall into the wrong hands.
- I realized I was looking at it from the wrong angle.
- We realized we had taken the wrong road and had to double back.
- I got into drugs because I was hanging around with the wrong people.
- He put the wheel on the wrong way around.
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Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- improper
- inapt
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- not cricket idiom
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- unfit
- unworthy
- vulgar
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wrong adjective (NOT MORAL)
B2 not considered morally acceptable by most people:
More examples
- Do you think it's wrong to use aborted foetuses for medical research?
- "Was it wrong of me to go to the police?" "Oh no, I'm sure you did right."
- It's wrong to treat animals as if they had no feelings.
- You didn't do anything wrong, - you should have a clear conscience .
- He argued that it was wrong to invest in the arms trade.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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wrong adjective (NOT WORKING)
B1 [ after verb ] not working correctly:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Machines - not functioning
- act
- burn
- cut
- deactivate
- dead
- defunct
- disable
- fritz
- give up the ghost idiom
- go down
- haywire
- on the blink idiom
- out of commission idiom
- seize
- shudder
- shut
- shut (sth) off
- stop
- unusable
- whack
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Idiom(s)
wrongadverb
uk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/A2 informal in a way that is not correct:
to make a mistake in the way you answer or understand something:
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- Everything went wrong when we tried to expand the business.
- We were having a pleasant meal, but when she mentioned politics, everything went wrong.
- I don't know what went wrong with their relationship.
B2 If a situation or event goes wrong, it becomes unpleasant and is not a success:
to make a mistake:
B1 UK If a machine goes wrong, it stops working correctly:
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- I've tied the knots all wrong.
- I got the time wrong.
- I wrote the number down wrong.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- improper
- impropriety
- invalid 1
- irregular
- mis-
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
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Idiom(s)
wrongnoun
uk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/[ U ] what is considered to be morally unacceptable:
[ C ] formal an unfair action:
If someone is in the wrong, they have made a mistake or done something that is bad or illegal:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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Idiom(s)
wrongverb [ T ]
uk/rɒŋ/us/rɑːŋ/formalto treat someone in an unfair or unacceptable way:
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Treating people or animals badly
- a raw deal idiom
- at the hands of sb idiom
- batten
- batten on sb
- be heavy on sb idiom
- bleed
- jerk
- jerk sb around
- knife
- knock
- knock sb around
- put sb through sth
- sexual harassment
- shit on sb
- shortchange
- shove
- shove sb around
- torment
- walk
- walk all over sb idiom
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