incorrectly

English

Alternative forms

• incorr. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From incorrect +‎ -ly or in- +‎ correctly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛk(t).li/

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Adverb

incorrectly (comparative more incorrectly, superlative most incorrectly)

1. In an incorrect manner.

   I lost a few marks in the test for spelling words incorrectly.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:

     In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009.

   • 2025 April 1, Nick Valencia, Brenda Goodman, Meg Tirrell, Tami Luhby and Sean Lyngaas, “‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     A RIF notice received by one FDA employee on Tuesday included performance ratings that were incorrectly low, meaning the severance pay offered was lower than it would be for the ratings they previously received, the employee told CNN.

Antonyms

• correctly

Translations

in an incorrect manner

• Catalan: incorrectament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不正確 / 不正确 (zh) (bùzhèngquè)

• Czech: nesprávně
• Finnish: väärin (fi), virheellisesti (fi)
• French: incorrectement (fr)
• Galician: incorrectamente
• German: unrichtig (de), falsch (de)
• Greek: λανθασμένα (el) (lanthasména)
• Hungarian: helytelenül (hu)
• Italian: erroneamente (it)
• Latin: barbare, perperam
• Lower Tanana: yuyge'
• Occitan: incorrèctament
• Persian: نادرست (fa) (nâdorost)
• Polish: błędnie (pl)
• Portuguese: incorretamente
• Romanian: incorect (ro), în mod incorect
• Russian: неве́рно (ru) (nevérno), непра́вильно (ru) (neprávilʹno)
• Spanish: incorrectamente (es)
• Ukrainian: непра́вильно (neprávylʹno)
• Walloon: nén comifåt, flotchreçmint (wa)

Anagrams

• retrocyclin