About The Word Erroneous
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Erroneous
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What's The Definition Of Erroneous?
[adj] containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Erroneous: inaccurate | incorrect | wrong Related Terms | Find terms related to Erroneous: aberrant | abroad | adrift | adulterated | Albigensian | all abroad | all off | all wrong | amiss | antinomian | apocryphal | Arian | askew | astray | at fault | awry | barbarous | beside the mark | blemished | botched | bungled | careless | Catharist | contrary to fact | corrupt | counterfeit | damaged | deceptive | defective | deficient | delusive | deviant | deviational | deviative | distorted | Donatist | Ebionitist | emanationist | Erastian | errant | erring | fallacious | fallible | false | faultful | faulty | flawed | found wanting | Gnostic | heretical | heterodox | hylotheist | hylotheistic | illogical | illusory | immature | impaired | imperfect | imprecise | improper | impure | in error | inaccurate | inadequate | incomplete | incorrect | inexact | infelicitous | invalid | Jansenist | Jansenistic | Jovinianist | Jovinianistic | lacking | Lollard | loose | makeshift | Manichaean | mediocre | misguided | misleading | mistaken | mixed | Monophysite | Monophysitic | Montanist | Montanistic | nonorthodox | not perfect | not right | not true | off | off the track | out | pantheist | pantheistic | partial | patchy | peccant | Pelagian | perverse | perverted | planetary | Sabellian | self-contradictory | short | sketchy | slipshod | slovenly | solecistic | specious | spurious | straying | truthless | unaccepted | unapproved | unauthentic | unauthoritative | uncanonical | undeveloped | uneven | unfactual | unfinished | unfounded | ungrammatic | unorthodox | unperfected | unproved | unscriptural | unsound | unthorough | untrue | Waldensian | wanting | wide | wrong | Wyclifite See Also | Erroneous In Webster's Dictionary \Er*ro"ne*ous\, a. [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err.
See {Err}.]
1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; --
hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Erroneous
circulation.'' --Arbuthnot.
Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise
would have disturbed the vision. --Sir I.
Newman.
2. Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]
An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we
ought to omit. --Jer. Taylor.
3. Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice;
incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine;
erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. --
{Er*ro"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Er*ro"ne*ous*ness}, n.
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