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单词 wrong
释义

wrong

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹɒŋ/
  • (General American) enPR: rŏng, IPA(key): /ˈɹɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) enPR: räng, IPA(key): /ˈɹɑŋ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Audio (CA)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋ

Adjective

wrong (comparative more wrong or wronger, superlative most wrong or wrongest)

  1. Incorrect or untrue.
    Some of your answers were correct, and some were wrong.
    • 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 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      Among this princely heap, if any here / By false intelligence or wrong surmise / Hold me a foe […]
    • 2015 December 26, Victor Robert Farrell, Night-Whispers Vol 01-Q1-'Stirring Passions'‎, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 143:
      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. […]
  2. Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
    You're wrong: he's not Superman at all.
  3. Immoral, not good, bad.
    It is wrong to lie.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Council Chambers, Citadel:
      Shepard: Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!
  4. Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
    A bikini is the wrong thing to wear on a cold day.
  5. Not working; out of order.
    Something is wrong with my cellphone.
    Don't cry, honey. Tell me what's wrong.
  6. Designed to be worn or placed inward
    the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth
  7. (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
    a wrong nose

Usage notes

  • The single-word comparative and superlative forms wronger and wrongest are no longer in common use, except humorously; rather, the locutions “more wrong” and “most wrong” are preferred.
  • When wrong is used attributively, before a noun, the noun is usually treated as definite, using the article the; hence, for example, one says, “I dialed the wrong number”, “he gave the wrong answer”, and “she took the wrong approach”, even though there are many possible wrong numbers, answers, and approaches, of which only one was dialed, given, or taken.

Quotations

  • 2007 January 3, Ken Miller, “The Collapse of Intelligent Design: Will the next Monkey Trial be in Ohio?”, Case Western University, Strosacker Auditorium
    that statement is wrong. Now that's not an incidental statement, that is the heart and soul of the Intelligent Design argument, and in this case it turns out to be wrong. Now it's even wronger than that [laughter] because it turns out that not only do these proteins make up the Type-III Secretory Apparatus but almost every protein in the bacerial flagellum is strongly homologous to proteins that have other functions elsewhere in the cell.

Synonyms

  • injurious
  • unjust
  • faulty
  • detrimental
  • unfit
  • unsuitable
  • Thesaurus:false

Antonyms

  • right

Derived terms

Terms derived from wrong
  • meteorwrong
  • not even wrong
  • on the wrong side of history
  • wrength
  • wrongdoer
  • wrongdoing
  • wronger than wrong
  • wrongful
  • wrongly
  • wrongness

Collocations

nouns
  • wrong way
  • wrong side
  • wrong thing
  • wrong place
  • wrong direction
  • wrong time
  • wrong person
  • wrong answer
  • wrong idea
  • wrong kind
adverbs
  • very wrong
  • terribly wrong
  • horribly wrong
  • completely wrong
  • entirely wrong
  • seriously wrong
  • morally wrong
  • quite wrong
  • clearly wrong

Translations

asserting something incorrect — See also translations at be wrong
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Adverb

wrong (comparative more wrong, superlative most wrong)

  1. (informal) In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.
    I spelled several names wrong in my address book.
    You're doing it all wrong!
    • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 131:
      `Then, just as I was, I walked out of the house and went to the recruiting-office, stating my age wrong.'

Translations

Noun

wrong (plural wrongs)

  1. Something that is immoral or not good.
    Injustice is a heinous wrong.
  2. An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
    • 1597, John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres, Part V
      Can she excuse my wrongs with Virtue's cloak? Shall I call her good when she proves unkind?
  3. The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
    • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], line 101:
      I blame not her: she could say little less; She had the wrong.
  4. The opposite of right; the concept of badness.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], line 28:
      Thus much of this will make Black white, foul fair, wrong right, Base noble, old young, coward valiant.

Synonyms

  • wrength

Derived terms

  • in the wrong

Translations

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Verb

wrong (third-person singular simple present wrongs, present participle wronging, simple past and past participle wronged)

  1. To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
    The dealerwronged us by selling us this lemon of a car.
    • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iv], line 109:
      Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.
  2. To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
    • c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i], line 121:
      ... And might by no suit gain our audience. When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs, We are denied access unto his person Even by those men that most have done us wrong.
  3. To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii], line 121:
      O masters! if I were dispos'd to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective, adverb, noun, or verb wrong
  • awrong
  • bark up the wrong tree
  • civil wrong
  • go down the wrong way
  • go wrong
  • in the wrong
  • my country, right or wrong
  • not that there's anything wrong with that
  • put a foot wrong
  • rub someone the wrong way
  • self-wrong
  • start off on the wrong foot
  • take (something) the wrong way
  • two wrongs don't make a right
  • two wrongs make a right
  • wrong side of bed
  • wrong 'un
  • wrongdoing
  • wronger
  • wrong-foot
  • wrongful
  • wrongfully
  • wronghead
  • wrong-headed
  • wrongless
  • wrongly
  • wrongness
  • wrong number
  • wrongous
  • wrong side of the tracks
  • wrong side out
  • wrong-timed
  • wrong way
  • wrong-way concurrency

Translations

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See also

  • wronged
  • wrung

Anagrams

  • grown

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vrɔŋ/
  • Audio (NL)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔŋ

Noun

wrong m (plural wrongen, diminutive wrongetje n)

  1. (heraldry) wreath, a ring made of two strips of cloth intertwined used on top of helmets to soften any blow

Verb

wrong

  1. singular past indicative of wringen

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • wrang, wronge, wronk, wornge, rong

Etymology

Semantic loan from Old Norse rangr, while the form is from Old English wrang (“rough, uneven”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wrɔnɡ/, [wrɔŋɡ]
  • (later ME) IPA(key): /rɔnɡ/, [rɔŋɡ]

Noun

wrong (plural wronges)

  1. A wrong, injustice
  2. A (moral) wrong, evil, wrongdoing, sin
  3. injury, harm
  4. mistake, misstep

Descendants

  • English: wrong
  • Northumbrian: wrang
  • Scots: wrang

References

  • “wrong, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-18.

Adjective

wrong

  1. wicked, evil, (morally) wrong
  2. unjust, unfair, illegitimate
  3. unlawful, illegal
  4. inappropriate
  5. inaccurate, mistaken
  6. curved, crooked, bent
  • wrongful
  • wrongfully

Descendants

  • English: wrong
  • Northumbrian: wrang
  • Scots: wrang

References

  • “wrong, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-18.
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