incorrect

English

Etymology

From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- +‎ correct.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛkt/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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

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.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Antonyms

• correct
• right
• proper

Derived terms

• incorrection
• incorrectly
• incorrectness
• politically incorrect

Translations

erroneous

• Armenian: սխալ (hy) (sxal)
• Asturian: incorreutu
• Bashkir: яңылыш (yaŋılış)
• 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 (cs) m
• Dutch: incorrect (nl)
• Esperanto: malĝusta
• Finnish: virheellinen (fi)
• Galician: incorrecto (gl)
• Georgian: მცდარი (mcdari), არასწორი (arasc̣ori)
• German: inkorrekt (de)
• Hungarian: helytelen (hu), téves (hu), hibás (hu)
• Irish: mícheart
• Italian: errato (it), scorretto (it)
• Japanese: 間違った (ja) (まちがった, machigatta)
• Khmer: មិន​ត្រឹមត្រូវ (mɨn-trəm trəw)
• Korean: 그른 (ko) (geureun), 잘못된 (jalmotdoen)
• 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), błędny (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)

Noun

incorrect (plural incorrects)

1. An item or response that is incorrect.
   • 2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:

     Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the ... If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or ...

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

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ correct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ.ʁɛkt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: incorrecte, incorrects, incorrectes

Adjective

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

1. (of language) incorrect (not correct)

   Synonyms: impropre, vicieux

   Near-synonym: abusif

   une prononciation incorrecte ― an incorrect pronunciation

   un terme incorrect ― an incorrect term

2. (of the execution of labor: a job, work of art, production, etc.) poorly made; made clumsily or carelessly; defective; shoddy, sloppy

   Synonyms: défectueux, mauvais

3. incorrect (socially unacceptable); rude, impolite

   Synonym: indélicat

   1. (of a person)

      Synonyms: discourtois, grossier, impoli, inconvenant

   2. disloyal

      Synonyms: déloyal, indélicat, irrégulier

   3. improper, inappropriate (of a behavior)

      Synonyms: déplacé, désinvolte, discourtois, grossier, impoli, incongru, inconvenant, indélicat

Derived terms

• incorrectement

See also

• faux

Further reading

• “incorrect”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.