erroneous

[ uh-roh-nee-uhs, e-roh- ]

/ əˈroʊ ni əs, ɛˈroʊ- /

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adjective

containing error; mistaken; incorrect; wrong: an erroneous answer.

straying from what is moral, decent, proper, etc.

Origin of erroneous

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin errōneus straying, equivalent to errōn- (stem of errō) wanderer (derivative of err-; see err) + -eus -eous

SYNONYMS FOR erroneous

1 inaccurate, untrue, false.

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ANTONYMS FOR erroneous

1 accurate.

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OTHER WORDS FROM erroneous

er·ro·ne·ous·ly, adverb er·ro·ne·ous·ness, noun non·er·ro·ne·ous, adjective non·er·ro·ne·ous·ly, adverb

non·er·ro·ne·ous·ness, noun

Words nearby erroneous

erratum, errhine, erring, errol, erron., erroneous, error, error analysis, error coin, error correction, error message

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But Uber's surges are not price gouging, as some have erroneously claimed.

In Defense of Uber’s Awful Sydney Surge Pricing |Olivia Nuzzi |December 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Then, it was erroneously reported that Anna Karenina director Joe Wright had won the job (a very strange choice).

Meet ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Director Sam Taylor-Johnson: The Cancer-Surviving Badass |Marlow Stern |June 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Her brother, George Percy, was erroneously linked to Pippa Middleton.

William and Harry Hit Rural Pub For Non-Rager Stag Party |Tom Sykes |April 15, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
We must counter those who erroneously believe that smearing another religion is the best way to defend their own.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: Let the Global Movement of Moderates Rise |Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf |September 20, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

She erroneously claimed that the major funder of the New Israel Fund is the Ford Foundation.

Old Familiar Tunes of Suppression |Don Futterman |June 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
This means not, as has been erroneously thought, 'crush Christianity,' but 'crush persecuting superstition.'

A Short History of French Literature |George Saintsbury
He thinks (erroneously, I conceive; but he does think) that our legislative rights are incomplete without such a representation.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) |Edmund Burke
In some later editions, 'the 27th of December 1820' was erroneously substituted.

Adonais |Shelley
The first edition of Dante issued from Foligno in 1472; it has been improbably, as well as erroneously, referred to Mentz.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 |Henry Hallam
It has been erroneously derived from the Arabic caique, supposed to have been applied to the native boats by early explorers.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for erroneously

erroneous

/ (ɪˈrəʊnɪəs) /

adjective

based on or containing error; mistaken; incorrect

Derived forms of erroneous

erroneously, adverb erroneousness, noun

Word Origin for erroneous

C14: (in the sense: deviating from what is right), from Latin errōneus, from errāre to wander

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