erroneous
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6.7
- adjective
- /ɪˈroʊniəs/
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erróneo
- However, with this sample at least, such an assumption would seem to be erroneous.
- erroneous records
- classify as erroneous
- erroneous assumptions
Lacking that, as Augustine says, having erroneous conceptions, that's not going to help.
- Lacking that, as Augustine says, having erroneous conceptions, that's not going to help.
- It's a desire to close loops of erroneous information.
- And of course that turned out to be erroneous.
- It's unfair to companies when there are major points that are erroneous and aren't properly addressed or handled.
- I'm motivated by the same belief that most people think wrong things about the past and base their actions on these erroneous assumptions.
- The first erroneous conclusion I came to was you believed Trump was an existential threat to the world.
- OK, well, that's obviously an erroneous belief, So beliefs can be wrong.
- But advertising for big food and then erroneous advice from our doctors and nutrition experts have led us to believe these things are pretty healthy.
- While this understanding of modern war is erroneous, it does contradict the idea that France entered the war without a doctrine that was, in its context, coherent.
- God help you if you're on medical billing is erroneous.
- Now the question is, is it an invincible erroneous conscience or is it invincible?
- We know that IQ is is kind of it's erroneous, right?
- Empathy is somewhere between useless and erroneous and leads you astray and is not effective.
- So we're we're going to over interpret things sometimes in an, in an, in an erroneous way.
- You know, I'm not out there trying to find erroneous, you know, female tits and doing cocaine out of people's buttocks and all that.
Examples
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Yeah, the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in.
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The report was deemed erroneous because it contained several factual inaccuracies.
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As the information is erroneous - - the correct information will be published tomorrow.
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Ah, yes, I shall take those obviously erroneous documents with me.
Fiction book (1995) -
Why, even the police have a completely erroneous impression of him.
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At worst, the police now have an erroneous belief about an innocent person, with no private facts actually revealed.
Academic text (2017) -
One such patch would also lead to the erroneous conclusion that the Earth is completely covered with water.
Academic text (1990) -
I can assure you... that rumor is completely erroneous.
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Indeed, the reports were as erroneous as they were prescient.
Academic text (2011) -
I'm motivated by the same belief that most people think wrong things about the past and base their actions on these erroneous assumptions.
Synonyms
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3.4
Thinking something is true when it is not
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1.4
A thing that has errors or does not follow rules
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4.3
Not correct or exact, with mistakes
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3.5
Not correct because it has mistakes, for example in an argument or plan
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7.2
Does not follow the rules of grammar
Wrong or not true
Full of mistakes that make it hard to understand
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Etymology
The word erroneous comes from the old Latin verb errare, which means 'to wander' and is the same root as error. Think of an idea that has 'wandered' away from the truth; that's why erroneous means 'wrong' or 'mistaken'.