incorrect

English

Etymology

From Middle French incorrect.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt
• Hyphenation: in‧cor‧rect

Adjective

incorrect (comparative more incorrect, superlative most incorrect)

1. Not correct; erroneous or wrong.

   He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question.

2. Faulty or defective.

   The computer crashed due to incorrect programming.

3. Inappropriate or improper.

   He was sacked because of his incorrect behaviour towards his secretary.

Antonyms

• correct
• right
• proper

Derived terms

• incorrectly
• incorrectness

Translations

erroneous

• Armenian: սխալ (hy) (sxal)
• Asturian: incorreutu
• Bashkir: яңылыш (yañïlïš)
• Belarusian: няпра́вільны (njaprávilʹny)
• Bulgarian: неправилен (bg) (nepravilen), неверен (bg) (neveren), неточен (bg) (netočen)
• Catalan: incorrecte (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不對, 不对 (bù duì), 不正確, 不正确 (bù zhèngquè)

• Czech: nesprávný m
• Dutch: incorrect (nl)
• Esperanto: malĝusta
• Finnish: virheellinen (fi)
• Galician: incorrecto
• Georgian: მცდარი (mcdari), არასწორი (arasc̣ori)
• German: inkorrekt (de)
• Hungarian: helytelen (hu)
• Irish: mícheart
• Italian: errato (it)
• Japanese: 間違った (ja) (まちがった, machigatta)

• Korean: 그른 (ko) (geureun), 잘못된 (jalmotdoen)
• Khmer: មិន​ត្រឹមត្រូវ (mɨn-trəmtrəw)
• Latin: perperus
• Latvian: nepareizs, kļūdains
• Malay: tidak betul, tidak benar
• Maori: muhu
• Mongolian: буруу (mn) (buruu)
• Occitan: incorrècte
• Plautdietsch: faulsch
• Polish: nieprawidłowy (pl), niepoprawny (pl)
• Portuguese: incorreto (pt)
• Romanian: incorect (ro)
• Russian: непра́вильный (ru) (neprávilʹnyj), неве́рный (ru) (nevérnyj)
• Slovak: nesprávny
• Spanish: incorrecto (es)
• Swedish: felaktig (sv), inkorrekt (sv)
• Thai: ผิด (th) (pìt)
• Ukrainian: непра́вильний (neprávylʹnyj)
• Venetian: sbajà, sbaià
• Vietnamese: không chính xác (空正確), sai (vi) (差), không đúng
• Volapük: neverätik (vo)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incorrect, from Latin incorrēctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪŋ.kɔˈrɛkt/
• Hyphenation: in‧cor‧rect
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Adjective

incorrect (comparative incorrecter, superlative incorrectst)

1. incorrect

Inflection

Inflection of incorrect
uninflected	incorrect
inflected	incorrecte
comparative	incorrecter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		incorrect	incorrecter	het incorrectst het incorrectste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	incorrecte	incorrectere	incorrectste
	n. sing.	incorrect	incorrecter	incorrectste
	plural	incorrecte	incorrectere	incorrectste
definite		incorrecte	incorrectere	incorrectste
partitive		incorrects	incorrecters	—

Synonyms

• fout

Derived terms

• incorrectheid

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French

Etymology

From in- +‎ correct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt/

• Audio

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Adjective

incorrect (feminine singular incorrecte, masculine plural incorrects, feminine plural incorrectes)

1. incorrect (not correct)
2. incorrect (socially unacceptable)

See also

• faux

Further reading

• “incorrect” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).