| 单词 | erroneously |
| 释义 | erroneously (once / 3652 pages) adv If you’ve done something erroneously, you’ve made a mistake or accidentally given out wrong information. If you erroneously accuse your brother of eating the last slice of your pecan pie, then you’re wrong: he didn’t do it. Erroneously traces back to the Latin word errare, meaning “to stray, err.” If something’s done erroneously, you can think of it as straying from the right path and ending up going in the wrong direction. If you erroneously report to the IRS that you only made $500 last year and you really made $10,000, well, that’s a big mistake. If you do something erroneously, it’s typically by accident — you think it’s right but it isn’t. WORD FAMILYerroneous: erroneously, erroneousness USAGE EXAMPLESAlmost all looked at the box where the man erroneously believes that his rock is hidden. Science Magazine(Dec 22, 2016) Throughout the trial, Camp erroneously referred to her as “the accused”. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) It sometimes erroneously tagged correct results as potential errors, and it identified many errors that were real but trivial. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) adv in a mistaken manner Syn mistakenly |
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