incorrectly

English

Etymology

From incorrect +‎ -ly or in- +‎ correctly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪnkəˈɹɛk(t)li/

Adverb

incorrectly (comparative more incorrectly, superlative most incorrectly)

1. In an incorrect manner.

   I lost a few marks in the test for spelling words incorrectly.

   • 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 26:

     In March 2008, the name was reapplied incorrectly as County of Durham, but this was also removed by February 2009.

Antonyms

• correctly

Translations

in an incorrect manner

• Catalan: incorrectament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不正確／不正确 (zh) (bùzhèngquè)

• Czech: nesprávně
• Finnish: väärin (fi), virheellisesti (fi)
• French: incorrectement (fr)
• Galician: incorrectamente
• German: unrichtig (de), falsch (de)
• Greek: λανθασμένα (el) (lanthasména)
• Hungarian: helytelenül (hu)
• Italian: erroneamente (it)
• Latin: barbare, perperam
• Occitan: incorrèctament
• Persian: نادرست (fa) (nâdorost)
• Polish: błędnie (pl)
• Portuguese: incorretamente
• Romanian: incorect (ro), în mod incorect
• Russian: неве́рно (ru) (nevérno), непра́вильно (ru) (neprávilʹno)
• Spanish: incorrectamente (es)
• Walloon: nén comifåt, flotchreçmint (wa)

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