| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
Synonyms: |
X, absurdity, bad job, blunder, boner, boo-boo, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misjudgment, mismanagement, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, screamer, screw-up, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
faulty, aberrant, all in the wrong, apocryphal, astray, at cross, controvertible, deceitful, delusive, devoid of truth, erroneous, exploded, fallacious, false, groundless, heretical, ideal, illogical, illusive, illusory, in error, in the wrong box, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, mistaken, mock, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, out, out in one's reckoning, perverted, refuted, spurious, tripping, unauthenticated, under an error, unexact, ungrounded, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, unsustainable, untrue, untrustworthy, wide of the mark
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| Main Entry: | blooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
Synonyms: |
boner, boo-boo, bungle, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, mistake, slip, solecism, trip* |
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
Synonyms: |
blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip* |
Antonyms: |
accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
| Main Entry: | boner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mistake |
Synonyms: |
blooper, blunder, bonehead play, boo-boo, bungle, error, false move, faux pas*, flub, flummox, foulup, gaffe, goof-up, miscalculation, miscue, misstep, muddle, muff, oversight, screw-up, slipup, snafu, whoops |
| Main Entry: | boo boo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small mistake |
Synonyms: |
blunder, error, gaffe, goof, misstep, oversight, screw-up, slip |
| Main Entry: | bug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer glitch |
Synonyms: |
breakdown, computer malfunction, defect, error, failure, fault, flaw, hitch, problem, something wrong, trouble |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
Synonyms: |
absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
Synonyms: |
birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness |
Antonyms: |
advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
Synonyms: |
apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
Antonyms: |
actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |