Word Meanings - WRONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of WRONG)

• Affront
• Outrage
• provocation
• insult
• ill-treatment
• abuse
• wrong
• offence
• Indignity
• Aggrieve
• Wound
• trouble
• annoy
• hurt
• vex
• disappoint
• molest
• maltreat
• grieve
• afflict
• injure
• Amiss
• Wrong
• untrue
• wide
• bad
• false
• defective
• short
• inappropriate
• inopportune
• injudicious
• untimely
• abortive
• Astray
• Loose
• abroad
• missing
• about
• at large
• erring
• wandering
• Awry
• Crooked
• aslant
• askew
• atwist
• bent
• carved
• distorted
• twisted

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of WRONG)

• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to WRONG)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• ERRABLENESS
  Liability to error. Dr. H. More.
• ERRHINE
  A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• MISSEL
  Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• MISSIFICATE
  To perform Mass. Milton.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• MISSTAYED
  Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• MISSILE
  A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
• COMMISSARY
  An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
• ABERRATE
  To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• VERRUGAS
  An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.
• SERR
  To crowd, press, or drive together. Bacon.
• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• INERRABLE
  Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• BERRETTA
  A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics (more info) of L. birrus, birrum, a cloak to keep off rain, cf. Gr. tawny, red:
• FERRIER
  A ferryman. Calthrop.
• TERRICOLAE
  A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.