'Erroneous' definitions:
Definition of 'erroneous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"
Definition of 'Erroneous'
From: GCIDE
- Erroneous \Er*ro"ne*ous\, a. [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.]
- 1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] "Erroneous circulation." --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. --Sir I. Newman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. -- {Er*ro"ne*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Er*ro"ne*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'erroneous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- adulterated,
- Albigensian,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- antinomian,
- apocryphal,
- Arian,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- awry,
- barbarous,
- beside the mark,
- blemished,
- botched,
- bungled,
- careless,
- Catharist,
- contrary to fact,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- damaged,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deficient,
- delusive,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- distorted,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- emanationist,
- Erastian,
- errant,
- erring,
- fallacious,
- fallible,
- false,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- flawed,
- found wanting,
- Gnostic,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illogical,
- illusory,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- improper,
- impure,
- in error,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- incorrect,
- inexact,
- infelicitous,
- invalid,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- lacking,
- Lollard,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- Manichaean,
- mediocre,
- misguided,
- misleading,
- mistaken,
- mixed,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- nonorthodox,
- not perfect,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- out,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- partial,
- patchy,
- peccant,
- Pelagian,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- planetary,
- Sabellian,
- self-contradictory,
- short,
- sketchy,
- slipshod,
- slovenly,
- solecistic,
- specious,
- spurious,
- straying,
- truthless,
- unaccepted,
- unapproved,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- undeveloped,
- uneven,
- unfactual,
- unfinished,
- unfounded,
- ungrammatic,
- unorthodox,
- unperfected,
- unproved,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- unthorough,
- untrue,
- Waldensian,
- wanting,
- wide,
- wrong,
- Wyclifite