About The Word Erroneous
Learn about the word Erroneous to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Erroneous definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Erroneous
Erroneous Definition And Meaning |
---|
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Mat ‐ a thick flat pad used as a floor covering [n] sports equipment…
- Silt ‐ mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake [v] become…
- In perpetuity ‐ for an indefinitely long time; "bequeathed to the nation in perpetuity"…
- Genus lemmus ‐ lemmings
- Imitation leather ‐ fabric made to look…
- Non-ionic detergent ‐ a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not…
- Bypath ‐ a side road little traveled (as in the…
- Overprice ‐ price…
- Best and greatest ‐ an epithet…
- Nightcap ‐ the final game of a double header [n] a cloth cap worn in bed…