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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
erroneous
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At least 15 million Americans still hold the erroneous view that cancer is contagious.
▪ Ricci's book tries to correct this erroneous view of ancient China.
▪ There were erroneous reports that the company had issued false statements.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As they contrasted expectations with reality they admitted exasperatedly that they had accepted the job based on erroneous perceptions.
▪ Instinct has become unfashionable because of its association with an erroneous theory of development.
▪ It is erroneous to believe that the decisions of one age should be binding upon another age.
▪ It would be erroneous to overstate this apprehension, for there was another aspect to the argument.
▪ People are scared and paranoid of erroneous information they got.
▪ Some parents attribute incorrect or erroneous motives, desires or ideas to their children.
▪ There are basically two ways of controlling erroneous data.
▪ We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erroneous

Erroneous \Er*ro"ne*ous\, a. [L. erroneus, fr. errare to err. See Err.]

  1. Wandering; straying; deviating from the right course; -- hence, irregular; unnatural. [Obs.] ``Erroneous circulation.''
    --Arbuthnot.

    Stopped much of the erroneous light, which otherwise would have disturbed the vision.
    --Sir I. Newman.

  2. Misleading; misled; mistaking. [Obs.]

    An erroneous conscience commands us to do what we ought to omit.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  3. Containing error; not conformed to truth or justice; incorrect; false; mistaken; as, an erroneous doctrine; erroneous opinion, observation, deduction, view, etc. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Er*ro"ne*ous*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
erroneous

late 14c., from Old French erroneus and directly from Latin erroneus "vagrant, wandering" (in Late Latin "erroneous"), from erronem (nominative erro) "a wanderer, vagabond," from past participle stem of errare "to wander, err" (see err). Related: Erroneously.

Wiktionary
erroneous

a. 1 contain an error; inaccurate. 2 derived from an error. 3 mistaken. 4 (context legal English) signifies a deviation from the requirements of the law, but does not connote a lack of legal authority, and is thus distinguished from illegal.

WordNet
erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate" [syn: inaccurate]

Wikipedia
Erroneous

Erroneous may refer to:

  • Your Erroneous Zones, a self-help book by Wayne Dyer
  • '' Erroneous rendition, in human rights
  • Erroneous program, a program whose semantics are not well-defined, but where the language implementation is not obligated to signal an error
  • Erroneous, pseudonym used by bassist Alex Dmochowski, so credited on the Frank Zappa albums Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo and Apostrophe

Usage examples of "erroneous".

Dominion apparently had erroneous intelligence that we were developing biogenic weapons on New Beijing.

The Dominion was supposed to have obtained erroneous intelligence that New Beijing was producing biogenic weapons.

This made an impression upon me, because it was an instance, rare to me then, but common enough now, of how minds, otherwise exceptionally able, may have a spot so encankered with creed, bigotry, and superstition as to render their judgments respecting certain classes of phenomena erroneous and illogical, puerile and ridiculous.

He always refrained from noticing any erroneous statement concerning himself or his works which might appear in the Papers of the Society: since, as he alleged, if he once began to correct, he would appear to endorse whatever he left uncorrected, and thus make himself responsible, not only for any interpretation that might be placed on his poems, but, what was far more serious, for every eulogium that was bestowed upon them.

Dick and Surajah found that their dialect differed much more from that of the country below the ghauts than they had expected and, although they had no difficulty in conversing with the peasants, they found that their idea that they would be able to pass as natives of one of these villages was an altogether erroneous one.

If later, as in the conditioned taste aversion experiment, the chick becomes mildly sick, it can only arrive at the sensible, if erroneous, conclusion that it was the bead it had pecked that made it sick if there is still some representation of the experience of pecking the bead somewhere in its brain.

The man who goes in against an experienced tackler, ignorant of the means of protecting himself, receives punishment so severe as to give him a completely erroneous idea of the game.

Cologne, without the perusal or permission of the superiors of this place: whereas I am informed for certain that in the aforesaid books, and also in certain of letters on the same subject, sent clandestinely to the clergy and senate of Treves, and others, for the purpose of impeding the course of justice against witches and magicians, there are contained many articles which are not only erroneous and scandalous, but also suspected of heresy, and savoring of sedition: I therefore hereby revoke, condemn, reject, and repudiate, as if they had never been said or asserted by me, the said articles, as seditious and temerarious, contrary to the common judgment of learned theologians, to the decision and bulls of the supreme Pontiffs, and to the practice, and statutes, and laws of the magistrates and judges, as well as of this Archdiocese of Treves, as of the other provinces and principalities, in the order in which the same are hereunto annexed.

Eloquent, articulate, pretentious and tendentious, verbose and possibly erroneous, but most of all, immensely grateful for what I am.

Although Schurig, Meckel, Himly, Taruffi, and others give bibliographic lists of diphallic terata, even in them erroneous references are common, and there is evidence to show that many cases have been duplicated under different names.

These communications, although affording intelligence which was, unfortunately, too true, were in several respects erroneous.

In the nominative case, an erroneous accent over the antepenult indicates that you take the last letter of the word immediately following the one wrongly accented, and so forth.

Why should you deny them this opportunity of indulging their twofold organisms, and beguiling the tedium of the voyage, merely because of some erroneous exhibition of fact?

Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.

From that erroneous conclusion, Marle came to the positive, and correct, assumption that The Shadow must still be at hand.