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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Incorrect \In'cor*rect"\, adjective [L. incorrectus: cf. F. incorrect. See {In-} not, and {Correct}.]
1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty.
The piece, you think, is incorrect. --Pope.
2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation.
3. Not accordant with duty or morality; not duly regulated or subordinated; unbecoming; improper; as, incorrect conduct.
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. --Shak.
The wit of the last age was yet more incorrect than their language. --Dryden.
Syn: Inaccurate; erroneous; wrong; faulty.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
incorrect
adjective
1: not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions" [syn: {wrong}] [ant: {correct}, {correct}]
2: not conforming with accepted standards of propriety or taste; undesirable; "incorrect behavior"; "she was seen in all the wrong places"; "He thought it was wrong for her to go out to work" [syn: {inappropriate}, {wrong}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
96 Moby Thesaurus words for "incorrect": Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, approximate, approximative, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, cacophonous, careless, clumsy, coarse, criminal, crude, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, evil, fallacious, false, faulty, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, ignominious, illegal, imprecise, improper, impure, in bad taste, inaccurate, inappropriate, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, indecorous, inelegant, inexact, infamous, infelicitous, lax, loose, low, mistaken, negligent, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out of line, out of plumb, out of square, out of true, out-of-line, outlandish, rude, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, slipshod, slovenly, solecistic, specious, tasteless, terrible, uncourtly, uncouth, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfactual, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitting, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unlawful, unpolished, unprecise, unrefined, unrighteous, unrigorous, unseemly, unsound, unsuitable, untrue, vulgar, wicked, wrong, wrongful
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