wrong (original) (raw)
wrong adjective (NOT SUITABLE)
We must have taken a wrong turning.
You've been quiet all evening. Is there anything wrong?
What's wrong with you today?
the wrong way around
(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:
You've got your skirt on the wrong way around.
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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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
wrong adjective (NOT WORKING)
Idioms
A2 informal
in a way that is not correct:
get something wrong B1 informal
Idiom
do a wrong He has done us a great wrong.
right a wrong She was trying to right (= do something to make better) the wrongs of the past.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Idiom
(Definition of wrong from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
wrong | American Dictionary
wrong adjective (NOT CORRECT)
That clock is wrong – it’s 12:30, not 12:15.
wrong adjective (NOT SUITABLE)
wrong adjective (IMMORAL)
wrong adjective (NOT WORKING)
wrong
It doesn’t work – what am I doing wrong?
Idiom
wrong verb [T] (TREAT UNFAIRLY)
wrong noun (IMMORAL ACT)
wrong noun (ACT THAT IS NOT CORRECT)
Idiom
(Definition of wrong from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of wrong
wrong
However, it may be wrong to apply the conclusion twice, even if a pair is obtained from two different paths.
Or to be told the usage one has just produced is wrong?
However, even if widespread neolithic societies did share a common set of problems it would be wrong to assume a common symbolic discourse.
But investment in human rights is not only a moral and quasi-legal salvation from things that are still going depressingly wrong.
Based on a potential error message, they might modify a word or a sentence that is not in fact wrong and hence make things worse.
It could be argued that we trained the wrong set of words.
Perhaps they simply got the wrong biological antagonist.
It would obviously be wrong to castigate those who have prepared this second edition for not doing various things that would have been very desirable.
They will not be denounced as ' 'wrong' ' or ridiculed.
Population extinctions resulting in endemism (sole occurrence in a locality or nation) in the wrong country can be the forerunner of species extinctions.
The unwary will be lulled into a false sense of security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
However, it is wrong to assert that the informal sector has taken care of a large number of older people since early times.
Some pupils spotted wrong notes that had not been edited out.
In the light of these quotations, the identification between literalism and fundamentalism seems doubtful, and probably wrong.
There are, moreover, times when the very idea of the primacy of habit over deliberation is wrong.
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