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| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | astray |
| Synonyms: | afield, amiss, askew, badly, inaccurately, incorrectly, mistakenly, unfavorably, wrongly, erroneously |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, slander, slight, spite, transgression, trespass, turpitude, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing, bad deed, immorality, misdoing, sinfulness, tort, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurt, mistreat another |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aggrieve, cheat, damage, defame, discredit, dishonor, harm, hurt, injure, malign, maltreat, misrepresent, mistreat, offend, oppress, outrage, persecute, take advantage of, ill-treat, impose upon |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incorrect |
| Synonyms: | amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, bad, defective, erratic, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty, inaccurate, inexact, misguided, mistaken, out, out of commission*, out of order*, perverse, rotten*, specious, spurious, unsatisfactory, unsound, unsubstantial, untrue, wide, counterfactual, fluffed, goofed, in error, miscalculated, misconstrued, misfigured, mishandled, not precise, not right, not working, off-target, on the wrong track, out of line, sophistical, ungrounded |
| Antonyms: | correct, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, dishonest |
| Synonyms: | bad, base, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, censurable, corrupt, criminal, crooked, debauched, depraved, dishonorable, dissipated, dissolute, evil, felonious, illegal, illicit, indecent, iniquitous, naughty, profane, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, risqué, sacrilegious, salacious, shady, sinful, smutty, unethical, unfair, ungodly, unholy, unjust, unlawful, vicious, wanton, wicked, wrongful, amoral, unrighteous |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, honest, moral |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inappropriate, not suitable |
| Synonyms: | amiss, awkward, bad, disproportionate, funny, gauche, ill-advised, improper, inapt, incongruous, incorrect, indecorous, malapropos, misplaced, off-balance, rotten*, unacceptable, unbecoming, unconventional, undesirable, unfit, unhappy, unsatisfactory, unseemly, unsuitable, infelicitous, not done, unfitted, unfitting |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, appropriate, correct, suitable, ok |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reverse, opposite |
| Synonyms: | back, inside, inverse, obverse |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se; unreasonableness, grievance; shame., injustice; unfairness; iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit; undueness [more]; unlawfulness [more]., robbing Peter to pay Paul; the wolf and the lamb; vice [more]., "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].
-verbs
be wrong; cry to heaven for vengeance., do wrong; be inequitable; favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell; rob Peter to pay Paul.
-adjectives
-adverbs
wrongly
-phrases
it will not do.
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| Antonyms: | right |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an insult |
| Synonyms: | abuse, indignity, injury, left-handed compliment*, offense, outrage, provocation, put-down*, slap*, slight, slur, vexation, wrong, backhanded compliment, brickbat, dirty deed, slap in the face |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appeasement, compliment, pleasantry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | apocryphal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | questionable; fake |
| Synonyms: | counterfeit, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, false, fictitious, inaccurate, mythical, spurious, unsubstantiated, untrue, unverified, wrong, unauthenticated, ungenuine |
| Antonyms: | authentic, doubtless, real, true |
| Main Entry: | astray |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off the path or right direction |
| Synonyms: | adrift, afield, amiss, awry, gone, lost, off, roaming, straying, vanished, wandering, wrong, off course, off the mark |
| Antonyms: | right, straight, on course |
| Main Entry: | awry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | off course; amiss |
| Synonyms: | afield, askance, askew, astray, badly, bent, cockeyed, crooked, curved, slanting, wrong, zigzag, aslant, turned |
| Antonyms: | ok, on course |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy*, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced*, won't fly, wrong |
| Antonyms: | genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lawless, felonious |
| Synonyms: | bent, caught, corrupt, crooked, culpable, deplorable, dirty, heavy, hung up*, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, off base*, peccant, racket, scandalous, senseless, shady*, smoking gun*, unlawful, vicious, villainous, wicked, wildcat*, wrong, indictable, out of line, unrighteous |
| Antonyms: | correct, lawful, legal, moral, right, righteous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | culpable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | responsible for action |
| Synonyms: | amiss, answerable, at fault, blamable, blameworthy, caught, censurable, dirty, guilty, hung up, liable, off base, punishable, reprehensible, responsible, sinful, smoking gun*, unholy, wrong, blameful, caught in the act, caught red-handed, demeritorious, found wanting, impeachable, in the wrong, indictable, out of line, to blame |
| Antonyms: | blameless, inculpable, innocent, right, not guilty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause injury, loss |
| Synonyms: | abuse, batter, bleach, blight, break, burn, contaminate, corrode, corrupt, crack, cripple, deface, defile, dirty, discolor, disfigure, disintegrate, dismantle, fade, gnaw, harm, hurt, impair, incapacitate, infect, injure, lacerate, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pollute, ravage, rot, ruin, rust, scorch, scratch, smash, split, spoil, stab, stain, tarnish, tear, undermine, vitiate, weaken, wound, wreck, wrong, bang up, scathe, tamper with, wear away, wreak havoc on |
| Antonyms: | benefit, bless, enhance, favor, fix, improve, mend, perfect, repair |
| Main Entry: | detraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misrepresentation; slander |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aspersion, backbiting*, calumny, damage, defamation, disparagement, harm, hit, hurt, injury, injustice, innuendo, insinuation, knock*, libel, lie, obloquy, pejorative, ridicule, scandal, slam, smear campaign*, tale, vituperation, wrong, backstabbing, belittlement, denigration, deprecation, derogation, disesteem, libeling, maligning, minimization, muckraking, revilement, running down, scandalmongering, scurrility, traducement, traducing, vilification |
| Antonyms: | admiration, adulation, flattery, praise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disservice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unkindness |
| Synonyms: | detriment, disfavor, harm, hurt, injury, injustice, insult, outrage, prejudice, wrong, bad turn |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, favor, giving, kindness, service, good turn |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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