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incorrect

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˌɪn.kəˈɹɛkt//
  • Australia//ˌɪn.kəˈɹekt//

Not correct; erroneous or wrong.

adjective

  1. 1

    Not correct; erroneous or wrong.

    He gave an incorrect answer to a simple question.

  2. 2

    Faulty or defective.

    The computer crashed due to incorrect programming.

  3. 3

    Inappropriate or improper.

Etymology

From Middle French incorrect. By surface analysis, in- + correct.

noun

  1. 1

    An item or response that is incorrect.

    Having each day's rates of corrects and incorrects written next to the graph also makes it easier for you to check the ... If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or ...

Forms

plural
incorrects
comparative
more incorrect
superlative
most incorrect
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).