Wrong I Thought Make Correctly Mistake Adverb Bre

• my name is spelt wrong.
• the program won't load. what am i doing wrong?
• i was trying to apologize but it came out wrong (= what i said sounded wrong).
• ‘i thought you were going out.’ ‘well you must have thought wrong, then!’

wrong

1. in a way that produces a result that is not correct or that you do not want
• opposite right
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• My name is spelt wrong.
• The program won't load. What am I doing wrong?
• I was trying to apologize but it came out wrong (= what I said sounded wrong).
• ‘I thought you were going out.’ ‘Well you must have thought wrong, then!’
• My name was spelled wrong.
• I’m afraid you guessed wrong.
• My name was wrongly spelt.
• She guessed wrongly that he was a teacher.
2. to not understand correctly what somebody means
• Don’t get me wrong (= do not be offended by what I am going to say), I think he’s doing a good job, but…
3. to not understand a situation correctly
• No, you've got it all wrong. She's his wife.
4. to make a mistake with something
• I must have got the figures wrong.
• It looks like they got their predictions wrong again.
5. to make a mistake
• If you do what she tells you, you won't go far wrong.
• Where did we go wrong with those kids (= what mistakes did we make for them to behave so badly)?
6. to stop working correctly
• My watch keeps going wrong.
7. to experience problems or difficulties
• The relationship started to go wrong when they moved abroad.
• What else can go wrong (= what other problems are we going to have)?
• What went wrong? You were doing really well.
8. to make a mistake
• In the last two games he has hardly put a foot wrong.
9. used to say that something will always be acceptable in a particular situation
• For a quick lunch you can't go wrong with pasta.

Word Origin

• late Old English wrang, from Old Norse rangr ‘awry, unjust’; related to wring.