- not accurate or true
- incorrect information/spelling
- His version of what happened is incorrect.
Extra Examples- a factually incorrect statement
- It's technically incorrect to talk about bats ‘hearing’ things.
- Many of the figures were incorrect.
- Your assumptions about my private life are incorrect.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- consider something
- …
- absolutely
- completely
- entirely
- …
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- speaking or behaving in a way that does not follow the accepted standards or rulesOxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
- be
- prove
- consider something
- …
- absolutely
- completely
- entirely
- …
opposite correct see also politically correct
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin incorrectus, from in- ‘not’ + correctus ‘made straight, amended’ (from the verb corrigere, from cor- ‘together’ + regere ‘guide’). Originally in the general sense ‘uncorrected’, the word was later applied specifically to a book containing many errors because it had not been corrected for the press; hence sense (2) (late 17th cent.).
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