Another word for error
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Noun
An act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true
- A going from one place to another; a journey.
- A stumble or fall.
- A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.
- An error; an oversight.
- To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
- To move stealthily; steal:
- To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:
- An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
- A misconception or misunderstanding.
- To understand wrongly; misinterpret:
- A misplaced or awkward step.
- An instance of wrong or improper conduct; a blunder.
- To make a mistake.
- A stroke in billiards that misses or just brushes the ball because of a slip of the cue.
- A mistake.
- To make a miscue.
- To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct:
- To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way:
- To pass gradually or smoothly; slip:
- The characteristic of being incorrect.
- The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
- An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
- An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.
See also:An erroneous or false idea
- Something untrue; a lie.
- The condition of being false; lack of truth.
- Unfaithfulness.
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
- The characteristic of being false.
- An untrue statement; a lie or an inaccuracy.
- The practice of lying.
- Lack of conformity to truth or fact; inaccuracy.
- A false notion.
- A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
- Incorrectness of reasoning or belief; erroneousness.
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Another word for error
Noun
A specific miscalculation
- A chaotic or confused situation.
- In a state of confusion or chaos.
- To make confused or chaotic.
- A condition of confusion caused by mistakes or poor judgment.
- A mechanical failure.
- a serious mistake; blunder; mess
- a person who screws up
- Light down or fuzz, as on a young bird or on a dandelion or milkweed seed.
- Something having a very light, soft, or frothy consistency or appearance:
- Light or superficial entertainment:
- A stroke in billiards that misses or just brushes the ball because of a slip of the cue.
- A mistake.
- To make a miscue.
- To bob up and down.
- To lose one's grip on (a ball, for example) momentarily.
- A mistake or blunder.
- The incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
- A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
- An extremely hard burned brick.
- To botch; bungle.
- The act or an instance of botching or bungling:
- To perform or handle clumsily or ineptly; bungle.
- To fail to make (a catch).
- To perform a task clumsily or ineptly.
- An error; an oversight.
- A clumsy mistake, especially one made in public; a faux pas.
- A weakly hit ball that carries just beyond the infield.
- A high pitch that is lobbed to the batter.
- A slight physical injury, such as a scratch.
- A stupid mistake; a blunder.
- A blunder or an error.
- A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag:
- A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
- A sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star.
- One that howls:
- A howler monkey.
- A laughably stupid blunder.
- An error to be corrected, especially a printer's error.
- A list of errors in a book along with their corrections.
- An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.
- An imperfection, often concealed, that impairs soundness:
- A defect or shortcoming in something intangible:
- To cause a flaw in; make defective:
- To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude:
- To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.
- A ruined or defective piece of work:
- To carry out badly or ruin through ineptitude; botch.
- To work or act ineptly or inefficiently.
- A clumsy or inept performance; a botch:
- To miss one's step in walking or running; trip and almost fall.
- To proceed unsteadily or falteringly; flounder.
- To act or speak falteringly or clumsily:
- A going from one place to another; a journey.
- A stumble or fall.
- A maneuver causing someone to stumble or fall.
- Something untrue; a lie.
- The condition of being false; lack of truth.
- Unfaithfulness.
- To report mistakenly or falsely.
- An inaccurate or wrong report.
- the quality or state of being absurd; nonsense
- an absurd idea or thing
- A wrong or faulty belief.
- A heretical or unorthodox religious belief.
- A failure to understand or interpret correctly.
- A disagreement or quarrel.
- A misplaced or awkward step.
- An instance of wrong or improper conduct; a blunder.
- To make a mistake.
- (uncountable) The act of mispronouncing.
- (countable) A mispronounced word or phrase.
- Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
- An example of such misuse.
- A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction.
- A violation of etiquette.
- An impropriety, mistake, or incongruity.
- Abusive treatment.
- Improper application, as of words.
- A typographical error.
- A mistake in printing, typesetting, or typing, especially one caused by striking an incorrect key on a keyboard.
- To print incorrectly.
- An error in printing.
- Small in size, degree, or amount:
- Lacking strength, substance, or solidity; frail:
- Of small importance or consideration; trifling:
- The act or an instance of omitting.
- The state of having been omitted.
- Something omitted or neglected.
- The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
- The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends:
- One that fails:
- The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short:
- To fail to hit, reach, catch, or otherwise make contact with:
- To be too late for or fail to meet (a train, for example).
- To fail to perceive, experience, or understand:
- To fall from a previous level or standard, as of accomplishment, quality, or conduct:
- To deviate from a prescribed or accepted way:
- To pass gradually or smoothly; slip:
- Not in conformity with fact or truth; incorrect or erroneous:
- Contrary to conscience, morality, or law:
- Unfair; unjust:
- The act of deviating or turning aside.
- An instance of this:
- Divergence from an accepted idea, policy, or norm of behavior:
- An incorrect or mistaken calculation
- An act of misjudging, a mistake in judgment.
- An incompetent, foolish, or stupid person.
- A careless mistake; a slip.
- To make a silly mistake; blunder:
- The quality or condition of being inaccurate.
- An instance of being inaccurate; an error.
- An unintentional omission or mistake.
- Watchful care or management; supervision.
- A clumsy social error; a faux pas:
- A blatant mistake or misjudgment.
- A social blunder.
- A character weakness, especially a minor one.
- Something that impairs or detracts from physical perfection; a defect.
- A mistake; an error:
- To move smoothly, easily, and quietly:
- To move stealthily; steal:
- To escape, as from a grasp, fastening, or restraint:
- A mistake typically caused by ignorance or carelessness.
- To make a mistake.
- To move clumsily or haltingly.
- An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness.
- A misconception or misunderstanding.
- To understand wrongly; misinterpret:
General misconception
- A failure to understand or interpret correctly.
- A disagreement or quarrel.
- The act or process of deluding.
- The state of being deluded.
- A false belief or opinion:
- The quality or condition of being false.
- Something false; a lie.
A moral offense
- A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate.
- Deliberate disobedience to the known will of God.
- A condition of estrangement from God resulting from such disobedience.
- any act or behavior that is wrong; the doing of wrong; transgression
- A violation of a law, principle, or duty.
- The exceeding of due bounds or limits.
- A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
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Synonym Study
- Boner and booboo , slang terms, are applied to a silly or ridiculous blunder
- A faux pas is a social blunder or error in etiquette that causes embarrassment
- A slip is a mistake, usually slight, made inadvertently in speaking or writing
- Blunder carries a suggestion of more severe criticism and implies such causes as stupidity, clumsiness, or inefficiency a tactical blunder cost them the war
- Mistake suggests an error resulting from carelessness, inattention, misunderstanding, etc. and does not in itself carry a strong implication of criticism a mistake in reading a blueprint
- Error implies deviation from truth, accuracy, correctness or right and is the broadest term in this comparison an error in judgment, in computation, etc.
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