incorrectly
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1.7
- adverb
- /ˌɪnkəˈrɛktli/
:
incorrectamente
- If you answer incorrectly, you lose a point.
- answer incorrectly
- respond incorrectly
- assume incorrectly
This is from, sorry if I'm saying your name incorrectly, Gabor Rosa.
- This is from, sorry if I'm saying your name incorrectly, Gabor Rosa.
- How many people are breathing incorrectly in your view?
- If you answer incorrectly, you lose a point.
- We can misinterpret, we can diagnose the situation incorrectly and mishandle it.
- So ivermectum is ineffective against COVID, and when used incorrectly, it can kill you.
- So it struck me that I was thinking of the story incorrectly.
- Next up, we have the shade that everyone guessed incorrectly.
- Somebody has read my remarks so that they're not spelled incorrectly.
- Our society is teaching individuals incorrectly in this stage.
- In fact, it's we've been using a notation incorrectly, the Dirac notation.
Examples
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Two percent of the checked records were found to have been entered incorrectly; these entries were corrected.
Academic text (2013) -
Two percent of the checked records were found to have been entered incorrectly; these entries were corrected.
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Have I drawn something incorrectly?
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If the student answers incorrectly, the student is given feedback on the correct answer.
Academic text (2008) -
A few students may simply mark the survey incorrectly, either by mistake or as a prank.
Academic text (2011) -
I presumed, and I presumed incorrectly.
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You are remembering incorrectly.
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If you answer incorrectly, you lose a point.
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Have I drawn something incorrectly?
Synonyms
65
2.7
In a way that is not correct or fair
55
3.1
In a wrong way because someone made an error
49
3.4
In a way that is wrong or not suitable for the situation
12
6.7
In a mistaken way
7
4.2
In a way that is not correct or exact
2
1.0
In a way that is not correct
1
8.0
In a wrong or wandering way that strays from what is expected
1
6.7
In a way that does not work properly
In a wrong or broken way
Antonyms
How Correctly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incorrectly starts with in- meaning 'not', has correct meaning 'right', and the ending -ly turns it into an adverb. So incorrectly simply means 'not right' or 'in a wrong way', which is why we use it to say something was done with errors.