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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
| Synonyms: | X, absurdity, bad job, blunder, boner, boo-boo, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misjudgment, mismanagement, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, screamer, screw-up, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
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| Concept: | Error. |
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-nouns
error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding; inexactness; laxity; misconstruction (misinterpreptation); miscomputation (misjudgment); non sequitur; misstatement, misreport; mumpsimus., mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip, stumble (failure); botchery (want of skill); slip of the tongue, slip of the pen; lapsus linguae, clerical error; bull (absurdity); haplography., illusion, delusion; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-deceit, self-deception; mists of error., heresy (heterodoxy); hallucination (insanity); false light (fallacy of vision); dream (fancy); fable (untruth); bias (misjudgment); misleading
-verbs
be erroneous, cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile, misinform (misteach); delude; give a false impression, give a false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive; lie., err; be in error, be mistaken; be deceived (duped); mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error; be in the wrong, blunder; goof, screw up; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount, miscalculate (misjudge) [more]., play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes (misinterpret) [more]., trip, stumble; lose oneself (uncertainty); go astray; fail; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear (mismanage); put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the shadow for the substance (credulity); dream (imagine).
-adjectives
erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical (heterodox); unsound; illogical., inexact, unexact, inaccurate, incorrect; indefinite (uncertain)., illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal (imaginary); spurious; deceitful; perverted.
-adverbs
more or less.
-phrases
errare est humanum; mentis gratissimus error [Horace]; "on the dubious waves of error tost" [Cowper]; "to err is human, to forgive divine" [Pope]; "you lie
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| Antonyms: | truth |
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| Main Entry: | blooper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blunder |
| Synonyms: | boner, boo-boo, bungle, error, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, impropriety, indecorum, lapse, mistake, slip, solecism, trip* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blunder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake |
| Synonyms: | blooper, boner, boo-boo, bungle, dumb move, dumb thing to do, error, fault, faux pas, flub, flub-up, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, lapse, muff, oversight, slip, slip-up, solecism, trip* |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, correction, fix, restitution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a mistake |
| Synonyms: | blooper, blunder, bonehead play, boo-boo, bungle, error, false move, faux pas*, flub, flummox, foulup, gaffe, goof-up, miscalculation, miscue, misstep, muddle, muff, oversight, screw-up, slipup, snafu, whoops |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boo boo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small mistake |
| Synonyms: | blunder, error, gaffe, goof, misstep, oversight, screw-up, slip |
| Main Entry: | bug |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | computer glitch |
| Synonyms: | breakdown, computer malfunction, defect, error, failure, fault, flaw, hitch, problem, something wrong, trouble |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings |
| Main Entry: | default |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure; want |
| Synonyms: | absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success |
| Main Entry: | defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blemish, imperfection |
| Synonyms: | birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness |
| Antonyms: | advantage, improvement, perfection, strength |
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