Erroneous
[ɪ'rəʊnɪəs;e-] or [ɪ'ronɪəs]
Definition
(adj.) containing or characterized by error; 'erroneous conclusions' .
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Definition
(a.) Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.
(a.) Misleading; misled; mistaking.
(a.) Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. False, incorrect, inexact, inaccurate, wrong, untrue.
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Examples
- But this idea he afterward gave up as erroneous. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I'm sorry now that I acted upon information, which seems to have been so erroneous. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is, however, erroneous to suppose that all of the ornamentation was done by hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions, you departed for the hotel, and I was left alone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- While it seems a pity to destroy this erroneous idea, suggestive of a heroic climb from the depths to the heights, nothing could be further from the truth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I confess, said he, that any theories which I had formed from the newspaper reports were entirely erroneous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now why is such an inference erroneous? Plato. The Republic.
- I believe as my fathers taught, said Rebecca; and may God forgive my belief if erroneous! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I had, said he, come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Almost every one has known some enthusiastic half-educated person, who sees everything at false distances, and in erroneous proportions. Plato. The Republic.
- Nothing could be more erroneous, nor more amusing to the physicist, since no chemicals ever come in contact with either the water or the ice. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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