 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wrong
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: {incorrect}]
[ant: {correct}, {correct}]
2: contrary to conscience or morality or law; "it is wrong for
the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is
wrong"; "it is wrong to lie" [ant: {right}]
3: not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "unsuitable
attire for the office"; "said all the wrong things" [syn:
{unsuitable}, {improper}]
4: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: {amiss(p)}, {awry(p)}, {haywire}, {wrong(p)}]
5: not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement
was simply untrue"; "the facts as reported were wrong"
[syn: {untrue}]
6: based on or acting or judging in error; "it is wrong to
think that way" [ant: {right}]
7: not in accord with established usage or procedure; "the
wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"
8: 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}, {incorrect}]
9: used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face
inward; "socks worn wrong side out"
10: badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my
intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was
the wrong moment for a joke" [syn: {ill-timed(a)}, {ill
timed(p)}, {unseasonable}, {untimely}]
noun
1: that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law;
"he feels that you are in the wrong" [syn: {wrongfulness}]
[ant: {right}, {right}]
2: a legal injury is any damage resulting from a violation of a
legal right [syn: {legal injury}, {damage}]
adverb: in an incorrect manner; "she guessed wrong" [syn: {incorrectly},
{wrongly}] [ant: {correctly}, {correctly}]
verb: treat unjustly; do wrong to [ant: {right}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Private \Pri"vate\ (?; 48), adjective [L. privatus apart from the
state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. p. of
privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr.
privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward
(hence, alone, single) and akin to prae before. See {Prior},
a., and cf. {Deprive}, {Privy}, adjective]
1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person,
company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected
with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general;
separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a
private purse; private expenses or interests; a private
secretary.
2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to
an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a
private room or apartment; private prayer.
Reason . . . then retires
Into her private cell when nature rests. --Milton.
3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or
employment; as, a private citizen; private life. --Shak.
A private person may arrest a felon. --Blackstone.
4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private
negotiation; a private understanding.
5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. [Obs.]
{Private act} or {Private statute}, a statute exclusively for
the settlement of private and personal interests, of which
courts do not take judicial notice; -- opposed to a
{general law}, which operates on the whole community. In
the United States Congress, similar private acts are
referred to as {private law} and a general law as a
{public law}.
{Private nuisance} or {wrong}. See {Nuisance}.
{Private soldier}. See {Private}, noun, 5.
{Private way}, a right of private passage over another man's
ground; also, a road on private land, contrasted with
{public road}, which is on a public right of way. --Kent.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrong \Wrong\ (?; 115), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wronged}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Wronging}.]
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to
withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm
to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. --Prov.
viii. 36.
2. To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable
of a base act, you wrong me.
I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honorable men. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrong \Wrong\, adverb
In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill;
erroneously; wrongly.
Ten censure wrong for one that writes amiss. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrong \Wrong\, obs.
imp. of {Wring}. Wrung. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrong \Wrong\ (?; 115), adjective [OE. wrong, wrang, adjective & n., AS.
wrang, noun; originally, awry, wrung, fr. wringan to wring;
akin to D. wrang bitter, Dan. vrang wrong, Sw. vr[*a]ng,
Icel. rangr awry, wrong. See {Wring}.]
1. Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Lev. xxi.
19).
2. Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine
or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not
morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just
or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice;
wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
3. Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate
for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable;
improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end
uppermost; to take the wrong way.
I have deceived you both; I have directed you to
wrong places. --Shak.
4. Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent;
not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
5. Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side
of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
Syn: Injurious; unjust; faulty; detrimental; incorrect;
erroneous; unfit; unsuitable.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wrong \Wrong\, noun [AS. wrang. See {Wrong}, adjective]
That which is not right. Specifically:
(a) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine
or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral
{right}.
When I had wrong and she the right. --Chaucer.
One spake much of right and wrong. --Milton.
(b) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of
falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
(c) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act
that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts
injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from;
another; a trespass; a violation of right.
Friend, I do thee no wrong. --Matt. xx.
18.
As the king of England can do no wrong, so neither
can he do right but in his courts and by his
courts. --Milton.
The obligation to redress a wrong is at least as
binding as that of paying a debt. --E. Evereth.
Note: Wrongs, legally, are private or public. Private wrongs
are civil injuries, immediately affecting individuals;
public wrongs are crimes and misdemeanors which affect
the community. --Blackstone.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
417 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrong":
abandoned, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, abnormal, abominable,
abomination, abroad, abuse, accursed, adrift, afflict, afield,
aggrieve, all abroad, all off, all wet, all wrong, amiss, arrant,
askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atrocity, awry, bad, badly,
bane, base, batty, befoul, befoulment, beside the mark, bewitch,
black, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blight, breach, bum,
censurable, commit an atrocity, condemn, corrupt, corruption,
cracked, crappy, crazed, crazy, crime, crime against humanity,
criminal, crucify, crying evil, curse, daft, damage, damnable,
dark, deadly sin, debauched, debt, deceptive, defective,
defectiveness, defile, defilement, delict, delinquency, delinquent,
delusion, delusive, demented, deprave, depraved, deranged,
dereliction, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction,
detriment, deviancy, deviant, deviational, deviative, diablerie,
disadvantage, disgrace, disgraceful, dissatisfactory, disserve,
disservice, dissolute, distorted, distortion, distress,
do a disservice, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong,
do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, enormity, envenom, errancy, errant,
erring, erroneous, erroneously, erroneousness, error, evil,
evildoing, evilly, execrable, failure, fallacious, fallaciously,
fallaciousness, fallacy, false, falsely, falseness, falsity, fault,
faultful, faultfully, faultily, faultiness, faulty, felonious,
felony, flagitious, flagrant, flaw, flawed, flawedness, foul,
futile, genocide, get into trouble, great wrong, grievance,
gross injustice, guilty act, hamartia, harass, hardly the thing,
harm, havoc, heavy sin, heinous, heresy, heretical, heterodox,
heterodoxy, hex, hurt, ignominious, ill, ill-advised,
ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, ill-treat,
illegal, illegality, illogical, illusion, illusory, immoral,
impair, impolitic, imposition, improper, improperly, improperness,
impropriety, in error, inaccurate, inadvisable, inappropriate,
inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect,
incorrectly, indecorous, indecorously, indiscretion, inept,
inequitable, inequitableness, inequity, inexpedient,
inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy, infect, infection, infelicitous,
inferior, iniquitous, iniquitousness, iniquity, injure, injury,
injustice, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid,
irrelevant, jinx, knavery, knavish, lapse, late, low, lunatic,
mal a propos, malapropos, malefaction, malefactory, malevolent,
malfeasance, malfeasant, maltreat, malum, menace, minor wrong,
misapplication, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misconstruction,
misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misguided,
misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistaken, mistakenly, mistimed,
mistreat, molest, monstrous, mortal sin, naughty, nefarious,
nonfeasance, not done, not right, not the thing, not true,
obliquity, off, off base, off the track, off-base, off-color,
offend, offense, omission, oppress, out, out of line, out of phase,
out of place, out of time, out-of-line, outrage, peccadillo,
peccancy, peccant, persecute, perverse, perversion, perverted,
play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, poor,
prejudice, premature, punk, rank, raw deal, reprehensible,
reprobacy, reprobate, rotten, sacrilegious, savage, scandal,
scandalous, scathe, self-contradiction, self-contradictory, shame,
shameful, shameless, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission,
sinful, sinful act, sinfulness, sinister, slip, specious, straying,
taint, terrible, the worst, threaten, too late, too soon, torment,
tort, torture, toxin, transgression, trespass, trip, unbalanced,
unbefitting, unblessed, under an error, undeserved, undesirable,
undue, undueness, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfactual,
unfairness, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfit, unfitting,
unforgivable, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unholy,
unjust, unjustness, unkind, unlawful, unlawfulness, unlucky,
unmeet, unmeetness, unmerited, unorthodox, unorthodoxy,
unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpropitious, unproved,
unready, unrighteous, unrightful, unripe, unsatisfactory,
unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable,
unsuitable, untimely, untoward, untrue, untrueness, untruly,
untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, unwise, unworthy, up,
venial sin, venom, vexation, vicious, vile, villainous, villainy,
violate, violation, wicked, wickedness, wide, woe, wound,
wreak havoc on, wrongdoing, wrongful, wrongfully, wrongfulness,
wrongly, wrongness
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