wrong
English
/ɹɒŋ/, /ɹɔŋ/
adj
Definitions
- 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; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
- (obsolete) Twisted; wry.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wrong inherited from Old English wrang (wrong, twisted, uneven) borrowed from Old Norse rangr (awry) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wrangaz (twisted, crooked, turned awry) derived from Proto-Indo-European *werḱ-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*werḱ-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- all English
- alwrong English
- awrong English
- bad English
- dirty English
- dirtybadwrong English
- do English
- doer English
- doing English
- foot English
- head English
- headed English
- minded English
- take English
- think English
- unwrong English
- wrong-minded English
- wrong-mindedly English
- wrong-mindedness English
- wrongdo English
- wrongdoer English
- wrongdoing English
- wrongdom English
- wronger English
- wrongest English
- wrongfoot English
- wrongful English
- wrongfully English
- wrongfulness English
- wronghead English
- wrongheaded English
- wrongheadedly English
- wrongheadedness English
- wrongish English
- wrongless English
- wrongly English
- wrongminded English
- wrongmindedly English
- wrongmindedness English
- wrongness English
- wrongous English
- wrongously English
- wrongsome English
- wrongtake English
- wrongthink English
- wrang Dutch, Flemish
- *werk'- Proto-Indo-European
- *werḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *berganą Proto-Germanic
- *bi- Proto-Germanic
- *wrangaz Proto-Germanic
- rang Norwegian Nynorsk
- rangstige Norwegian Nynorsk
- rengja Norwegian Nynorsk
- *wrengþu Old English
- wrang Old English
- wrength Middle English
- wrong Middle English
- wrongdom Middle English
- wrongful Middle English
- wrongnesse Middle English
- wrongous Middle English
- rangr Old Norse
- rengja Old Norse
- vrang Danish
- rangstaða Icelandic
- rangur Icelandic
- wranc Middle Dutch
- vrank Afrikaans
- rangur Faroese
- *wrang Old Dutch
- vrang Westrobothnian
- protect, hide, *bergan, to take care of Frankish
- wrang Old Danish
- do
- bad
- all
- doer
- head
- foot
- take
- think
- doing
- dirty
- awrong
- minded
- headed
- wrongdo
- wronger
- alwrong
- wrongly
- unwrong
- wrongful
- wrongous
- wrongdom
- wrongest
- wrongish
- wrongsome
- wrongness
- wronghead
- wrongless
- wrongdoer
- wrongtake
- wrongfoot
- wrongfully
- wrongously
- wrongdoing
- wrongthink
- wrongminded
- wrongheaded
- wrong-minded
- wrongfulness
- dirtybadwrong
- wrongmindedly
- wrongheadedly
- wrong-mindedly
- wrongmindedness
- wrongheadedness
- wrong-mindedness