Thesaurus:error
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- aberration
- barbarism
- bloomer (dated)
- blooper
- blunder
- boner (dated slang)
- boo-boo
- break (obsolete slang)
- clanger
- cock-up (vulgar)
- error
- fault
- faux pas
- floater (slang)
- flub
- fluff
- fuckup (vulgar)
- gaffe
- goof
- howler
- lapse
- lapsus
- mess-up (colloquial)
- misstep
- mistake
- oopsy (childish)
- screwup [⇒ thesaurus] (colloquial)
- slip
- slip-up
- slipup
- stumble
- thinko
- wrength
- solecism
- erroneity
Hyponyms[edit]
- incorrect argument [⇒ thesaurus]
- misargument
- miscalculation
- misconception
- misspelling
- mispronunciation
- misstatement
- scanno
- spello
- thinko
- typo
Various[edit]
See also[edit]
- Thesaurus:defect
- Category:English terms prefixed with mis-
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error
- Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/27 § error
Further reading[edit]
- “495. error” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “error” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.