What does erroneous mean?
Definitions for erroneous
əˈroʊ ni əs, ɛˈroʊ-er·ro·neous
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Princeton's WordNet
erroneousadjective
containing or characterized by error
"erroneous conclusions"
Wiktionary
erroneousadjective
Containing an error; inaccurate.
erroneousadjective
Derived from an error.
erroneousadjective
Mistaken.
erroneousadjective
signifies a deviation from the requirements of the law, but does not connote a lack of legal authority, and is thus distinguished from illegal.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Erroneousadjective
Etymology: from erro, Latin.
They roam
Erroneous and disconsolate, themselves
Accusing, and their chiefs improvident
Of military chance. Phillips.This circle, by being placed here, stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision. Isaac Newton, Opt.
Unblam’d abundance crown’d the royal board,
What time this done rever’d her prudent lord;
Who now, so heav’n decrees, is doom’d to mourn,
Bitter constraint! erroneous and forlorn. Alexander Pope, Odyssey, b. i.If the vessels, instead of breaking, yield, it subjects the person to all the inconveniencies of erroneous circulation; that is, when the blood strays into the vessels destined to carry serum or lymph. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Thou art far from destroying the innocent with the guilty, and the erroneous with the malicious. Charles I .
There is the erroneous as well as the rightly informed conscience. Robert South, Sermons.
Their whole counsel is in this point utterly condemned, as having either proceeded from the blindness of those times, or from negligence, or from desire of honour and glory, or from an erroneous opinion that such things might be for a while. Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 14.
A wonderful erroneous observation that walketh about, is commonly received, contrary to all the true account of time and experience. Francis Bacon, War with Spain.
The phænomena of light have been hitherto explained by supposing that they arise from new modifications of the rays, which is an erroneous supposition. Isaac Newton, Opt.
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erroneous
Erroneous refers to something that contains errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies. It can be used to describe a statement, belief, action or concept that is incorrect, false, or misleading.
Webster Dictionary
Erroneousadjective
wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural
Erroneousadjective
misleading; misled; mistaking
Erroneousadjective
containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc
Etymology: [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of erroneous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of erroneous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of erroneous in a Sentence
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
If the service members fulfilled their service commitment and there’s no obvious reason to believe that they knew or should have known that it was an erroneous payment, then we don’t need further review to get rid of that case.
Once we identified the error, we cleared the erroneous data and updated it with the correct data as provided by officials.
At some point we are all compelled to take pause and reflect on the reality that unsubstantiated, temporally aged, and concurrent use of social media to incite a ‘Me Too’ call-to-arms runs afoul of every constitutional safeguard we have always held so dear. Superimposing today’s mores on erroneous recitals of acts of yesteryear is a recipe for disaster for both the accused and the accuser.
As pilots have told us, erroneous activation of the MCAS function can add to what is already a high-workload environment, it's our responsibility to eliminate this risk. We own it and we know how to do it.
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