Qualities
Synonyms for wrong
Synonyms for wrong: improper, incorrect and amiss. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for wrong
Interchangeable with wrong, one per sense
Audited under wrong's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wrong carries in that sense.
- improperadjective, in the sense "not appropriate for a purpose or occasion"
- incorrectadjective, in the sense "characterized by errors"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wrong as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- amissamiss is an adjective in the sense "not functioning properly"
two of these come from wrong's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
not appropriate for a purpose or occasion
Said all the wrong things.
The true synonym
improper
Same sentence, swapped: Said all the improper things.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for wrong in the sentence quoted.
- haywire
- off
- hurt
characterized by errors
He gave the wrong answer to the final exam question.
The true synonym
incorrect
Same sentence, swapped: He gave the incorrect answer to the final exam question.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- amiss
- untimely
- bad
Where wrong turns up in the game
wrong is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play wrong
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wrong reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wrong carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.