Wrong Meaning
/ˈɹɒŋ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjIncorrect or untrue.
adjAsserting something incorrect or untrue.
Sentence Examples
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
You took the wrong key.
Children must be taught the difference between right and wrong.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The answer he gave on the test was completely incorrect, so it was ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I am sorry, but you have given me the ____ information about the several time of the important meeting today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang (“wrong, twisted, uneven”), from Old Norse rangr, vrangr (“crooked, wrong”), from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (“crooked, twisted, turned awry”), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ- (“to twist, weave, tie together”), from *wer- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots wrang (“wrong”), Danish vrang (“wrong, crooked”), Swedish vrång (“perverse, distorted”), Icelandic rangur (“wrong”), Norwegian Nynorsk rang (“wrong”), Dutch wrang (“bitter, sour”) and the first element in the mythic Old Frisian city of Rungholt (“crooked wood”). More at wring.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]"
— c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
"You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; / Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, / In a vision, or in none, / Is it therefore the less gone?"
— 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
"In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]"
— 2015 December 26, Victor Robert Farrell, Night-Whispers Vol 01-Q1-'Stirring Passions', Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 143:
"Throughout this time, Mystic Wolmar has been trying his luck and mostly getting it wrong - especially in 2006, when he got virtually everything wrong, including the departure of Tony Blair."
— 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 61:
"Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!"
— 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Council Chambers, Citadel:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The answer he gave on the test was completely incorrect, so it was ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I am sorry, but you have given me the ____ information about the several time of the important meeting today.