Erroneous Definition

ĭ-rōnē-əs
adjective
Containing or based on error; mistaken; wrong.
Webster's New World

Containing an error; inaccurate.

Wiktionary

Mistaken.

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(law) Signifies a deviation from the requirements of the law, but does not connote a lack of legal authority, and is thus distinguished from illegal.

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Origin of Erroneous

  • Middle English from Latin errōneus from errō errōn- a vagabond from errāre to err, wander ers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French and Latin erroneus

    From Wiktionary

Erroneous Sentence Examples

  • He was accused of erroneous doctrine, and the Spanish viceroy of Naples prohibited his preaching.

  • However, on further examination, the claim can be seen to be wholly erroneous.

  • Indeed, he never shook off the erroneous ideas of his time regarding the paths of projectiles, further than to see that no part of them could be a straight line.

  • These fossils, which are now in the British Museum, were interpreted by Dr Mantell, who made comparisons with the skeleton of Iguana, on the erroneous supposition that the resemblance in the teeth denoted some relationship to this existing lizard.

  • By the 13th of June he had learnt the truth, and sailed for Gibraltar under the erroneous impression that the French admiral would return to Toulon.

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