About The Word Incorrect
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What's The Definition Of Incorrect?
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Incorrect: erroneous | fallacious | false | inaccurate | inappropriate | mistaken | wrong Related Terms | Find terms related to Incorrect: aberrant | abnormal | abominable | approximate | approximative | atrocious | barbaric | barbarous | cacophonous | careless | clumsy | coarse | criminal | crude | delinquent | deviant | disgraceful | doggerel | Doric | 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 | outlandish | out-of-line | 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 See Also | improper Incorrect In Webster's Dictionary \In`cor*rect"\, a. [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.
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