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unfit, unhappy, unseemly, unsuitable

[3] erroneous, false, inaccurate, incorrect, inexact, invalid, off, unsound, untrue—more at FALSE

[4] bad, deficient, inferior, lousy, off, poor, punk, rotten, substandard, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting, wretched—more at BAD

3wrong adverb 1 : in a mistaken or erroneous manner

2 : in a wrong direction, manner, or relation

Synonyms

afield, amiss, astray, awry; also badly; faultily, improperly, incorrectly, mistakenly, wrongly; inadequately, insufficiently

Antonyms

aright, right, well

4wrong verb wronged; wrong·ing 1 : to do wrong to : INJURE, HARM

2 : to treat unjustly : DISHONOR, MALIGN

wrong·do·er noun : a person who does wrong and esp. moral wrong

Synonyms

evildoer, malefactor, sinner—more at EVILDOER

wrong·do·ing noun : the act or action of doing wrong

Synonyms

breach, crime, error, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, offense, sin, transgression, trespass, violation—more at OFFENSE

malfeasance, misbehavior, misconduct, misdoing—more at MISCONDUCT

wrong·ful adjective 1 : WRONG, UNJUST

2 : having no legal sanction : UNLAWFUL

— wrong·ful·ly adverb

— wrong·ful·ness noun

Synonyms

criminal, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful—more at ILLEGAL

wrong·head·ed adjective : stubborn in clinging to wrong opinion or principles

— wrong·head·ed·ly adverb

— wrong·head·ed·ness noun

wrong·ly adverb : in a bad, incorrect, inappropriate, or unsuitable manner

Synonyms

amiss, erroneously, faultily, improperly, inaptly, incorrectly, mistakenly; also fallibly, imperfectly; extraneously, senselessly; inadequately, insufficiently; foolishly, unwisely

Antonyms

appropriately, aptly, correctly, fittingly, properly, right, rightly, suitably

wrote past of WRITE

wroth adjective : filled with wrath : ANGRY

wrought adjective [ORIGIN: ME, fr. pp. of worken to work]

1 : FASHIONED, FORMED

2 : ORNAMENTED

3 : beaten into shape by tools : HAMMERED <~ metals>

4 : deeply stirred : EXCITED

wrung past and past participle of WRING

wry adjective wry·er ; wry·est 1 : having a bent or twisted shape ; also : turned abnormally to one side : CONTORTED

2 : cleverly and often ironically humorous

— wry·ly adverb

— wry·ness noun

wry·neck noun 1 : either of two Old World woodpeckers that differ from typical woodpeckers in having a peculiar manner of twisting the head and neck

2 : an abnormal twisting of the neck and head to one side caused by muscle spasms

WSW abbreviation west-southwest

wt abbreviation weight

wurst noun : SAUSAGE

wuss noun : WIMP

— wussy adjective

WV or W Va abbreviation West Virginia

WW abbreviation World War

w/w abbreviation wall-to-wall

WY or Wyo abbreviation Wyoming

WYS·I·WYG adjective [ORIGIN: what you see is what you get]

: of, relating to, or being a computer display that shows a document exactly as it will appear when printed out

X

1x noun, plural x's or xs often cap 1 : the 24th letter of the English alphabet

2 : an unknown quantity

2x verb x-ed also x'd or xed ; x-ing or x'ing : to cancel or obliterate with a series of x's — usu. used with out

3x abbreviation 1 ex

2 experimental

3 extra

4x symbol 1 times <3 x 2 is 6>

2 by

3 often cap power of magnification

Xan·a·du noun [ORIGIN: fr. Xanadu, locality in Kubla Khan (1798), poem by Eng. poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge †1834]

: an idyllic, exotic, or luxurious place

Xan·thip·pe or Xan·tip·pe noun [ORIGIN: Gk Xanthippē, shrewish wife of Socrates]

: an ill-tempered woman

x–ax·is noun : the axis of a graph or of a system of coordinates in a plane parallel to which abscissas are measured

X–C abbreviation cross-country

X chromosome noun : a sex chromosome that usu. occurs paired in each female cell and single in each male cell in organisms (as humans) in which the male normally has two unlike sex chromosomes

Xe symbol xenon

xe·non noun [ORIGIN: Gk, neut. of xenos strange]

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