wrong

Meanings

Adjective

• Incorrect or untrue.
• Asserting something incorrect or untrue.
• Immoral, not good, bad.
• Improper; unfit; unsuitable.
• Not working; out of order.
• Designed to be worn or placed inward
• Twisted; wry.

Adverb

• In a way that isn't right; incorrectly, wrongly.

Noun

• Something that is immoral or not good.
• An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer).
• The incorrect or unjust position or opinion.
• The opposite of right; the concept of badness.

Verb

• To treat unjustly; to injure or harm.
• To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice.
• To slander; to impute evil to unjustly.

Related

Similar words

• injurious
• unjust
• faulty
• detrimental
• unfit
• unsuitable
• wrength

Opposite words

• right

Origin

• From Middle English wrong, from Old English wrang ("wrong, twisted, uneven"), from Old Norse rangr, *vrangr, from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz ("crooked, twisted, turned awry"), from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-, *wrengʰ-, from *wer-. 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. More at wring.