erroneous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: er=ro=ne=ous

CIDE DICTIONARY

erroneous, a. [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.].

•  Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural.  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]

  "Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision."  [1913 Webster]
•  Misleading; misled; mistaking.  [1913 Webster]

  "An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit."  [1913 Webster]
•  Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

erroneous, adj. incorrect; arising from error.

Derivative

erroneously adv. erroneousness n.

Etymology

ME f. OF erroneus or L erroneus f. erro -onis vagabond (as ERR)

THESAURUS

erroneous

Albigensian, Arian, Catharist, Donatist, Ebionitist, Erastian, Gnostic, Jansenist, Jansenistic, Jovinianist, Jovinianistic, Lollard, Manichaean, Monophysite, Monophysitic, Montanist, Montanistic, Pelagian, Sabellian, Waldensian, Wyclifite, aberrant, abroad, adrift, adulterated, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, antinomian, apocryphal, askew, astray, at fault, awry, barbarous, beside the mark, blemished, botched, bungled, careless, contrary to fact, corrupt, counterfeit, damaged, deceptive, defective, deficient, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative, distorted, emanationist, errant, erring, fallacious, fallible, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, found wanting, heretical, heterodox, hylotheist, hylotheistic, illogical, illusory, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, improper, impure, in error, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, incorrect, inexact, infelicitous, invalid, lacking, loose, makeshift, mediocre, misguided, misleading, mistaken, mixed, nonorthodox, not perfect, not right, not true, off, off the track, out, pantheist, pantheistic, partial, patchy, peccant, perverse, perverted, planetary, 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, wanting, wide, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

erroneous

Error

N error, fallacy, misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness, laxity, misconstruction, miscomputation, non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread, trip, stumble, botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography, illusion, delusion, snare, false impression, false idea, bubble, self-decit, self-deception, mists of error, heresy, hallucination, false light, dream, fable, bias, misleading, erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial, heretical, unsound, illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, illusive, illusory, delusive, mock, ideal, spurious, deceitful, perverted, controvertible, unsustainable, unauthenticated, untrustworthy, exploded, refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken, tripping, out, out in one's reckoning, aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off, astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out, more or less, errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, on the dubious waves of error tost, to err is human, to forgive divine, you lie -- under a mistake.