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wrong number
adjective as in erroneous
adjective as in inappropriate
adjective as in incorrect
adjective as in mistaken
Strongest matches
- confounded
- confused
- deceived
- deluded
- duped
- fooled
- misguided
- misinformed
- misinterpreting
- misjudging
- misled
- tricked
Strong matches
noun as in bad egg
Example Sentences
Instead, though, he kept finding brain cells that had the wrong number of chromosomes.
In addition to abnormal insertions and the wrong number of vessels, the study lists abnormal cord length, cysts, and blood clots along the cord.
Everything she found on Google or through WhatsApp was a wrong number, or the supplies were out of stock.
They would write down the wrong number when solving a math problem, even knowing the right answer, or read the same page of a book several times to pick up basic details.
“You got the wrong number for that,” Det. Johnson told her colleague, Coleman, over the phone while I fed her questions.
Louis said they had no Toots there and Lamb said he was very sorry, that he must have got the wrong number.
I really ought to have been one of the people in the Central Exchange, who give you the wrong number.
The other I discovered, and now occupy, although he gave me both a wrong name and wrong number.
Sometimes he would be summoned to the telephone, only to learn that Central had called the wrong number.
The children are sometimes caught by the wrong number being told to fly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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