Meaning of INCORRECT
Pronunciation: | | `inku'rekt
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- [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"
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| Synonyms: | | erroneous, fallacious, false, inaccurate, inappropriate, mistaken, wrong |
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| Antonyms: | | correct, right | |
| See Also: | | improper | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \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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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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