erroneous
/ɪˈrəʊnɪəs
/ /ɛˈrəʊnɪəs/adjective
Wrong; incorrect: employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions...
- Incorrect, difficult or erroneous readings must have been created over time by scribal error.
- Even if the award was somewhat low it could not in any way be said to be wholly erroneous or wrong in principle, he submits.
- There is nothing stated which is erroneous or wrong and there is no allegation that there is.
Synonyms
wrong, incorrect, mistaken, in error, inaccurate, not accurate, inexact, not exact, imprecise, invalid, untrue, false, fallacious, wide of the mark, off target;
misleading, illogical, unsound, specious, unfounded, without foundation, faulty, flawed, spurious
informal off beam, bogus, phoney, out, way out, full of holes, dicey, iffy
British informal dodgy
archaic abroad
Derivatives
erroneousness
/ /ɛˈrəʊnɪəsnəs / noun ...- Or do you reject the new data entirely, because the fact that it contradicts the previous timeline is prima facie evidence of its erroneousness?
- He believed that prosperity could only be guaranteed if the country retained the imperial connection, and maintained that the Union had failed it because of its misapplication and not because of its inherent erroneousness.
- And please don't bother to ‘enlighten’ me of the erroneousness of it all, because I am VERY much aware of it.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin erroneus (from erro(n-) 'vagabond', from errare 'to stray, err') + -ous.
Rhymes
- cytomorphosis
- cyton
- cytopathic
- cytopathogenic
- cytopathogenicity
- cytopathologist
- cytopathology
- cytopenia
- cytopenic
- cytopharynx
- cytophil
- cytophile
- cytophilic
- cytophilically
- cytophotometer
- cytophotometric
- cytophotometrically
- cytophotometry
- cytoplasm
- cytoplasmatic
- cytoplasmic
- cytoplasmically
- cytoplasmic inheritance
- cytoplasmic male sterility
- take up (or throw down) the gauntlet