Wrong and Off

noun

• That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.
  • usage: "he feels that you are in the wrong"
  • synonyms: wrongfulness
• Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
  • synonyms: legal injury, damage

verb

• Treat unjustly; do wrong to.

adjective

• Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.
  • usage: "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Contrary to conscience or morality or law.
  • usage: "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
• Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.
  • usage: "said all the wrong things"
  • synonyms: improper
• Not functioning properly.
  • usage: "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
  • synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire
• Based on or acting or judging in error.
  • usage: "it is wrong to think that way"
• Not in accord with established usage or procedure.
  • usage: "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.
  • usage: "socks worn wrong side out"
• Badly timed.
  • usage: "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
  • synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely
• Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.
  • usage: "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
  • synonyms: faulty, incorrect

adverb

• In an inaccurate manner.
  • usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
  • synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly

• (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
• (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
• (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
• (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
• (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
• (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
• (v.t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
• (v.t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
• (a.) That which is not right.
• (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
• (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
• imp. of Wring. Wrung.
• (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.

verb

• Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
  • usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove

adjective

• Not in operation or operational.
  • usage: "the oven is off"; "the lights are off"
• Below a satisfactory level.
  • usage: "an off year for tennis"; "his performance was off"
• Of events. ( no longer planned or scheduled)
  • usage: "the wedding is definitely off"
  • synonyms: cancelled
• In an unpalatable state.
  • usage: "sour milk"
  • synonyms: sour, turned
• Not performing or scheduled for duties.
  • usage: "He's off every Tuesday"

adverb

• From a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete. )
  • usage: "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach"
  • synonyms: away, forth
• At a distance in space or time)
  • usage: "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away. "; "away back in the 18th century"
  • synonyms: away
• No longer on or in contact or attached.
  • usage: "clean off the dirt"; "he shaved off his mustache"

• (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.
• (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
• (interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.
• (prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.
• (a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.
• (adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:.
• (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.
• (adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.
• (adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
• (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.
• (a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.