ERRONEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does erroneous mean? 

• ERRONEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective ERRONEOUS has 1 sense:

1. containing or characterized by error

  Familiarity information: ERRONEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERRONEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Containing or characterized by error

Context example:

erroneous conclusions

Similar:

incorrect; wrong (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth)

Derivation:

erroneousness (inadvertent incorrectness)

 Context examples 

The picture which she had then drawn of the privations of the approaching winter, had proved erroneous; no friends had deserted them, no pleasures had been lost.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

My father’s care and attentions were indefatigable, but he did not know the origin of my sufferings and sought erroneous methods to remedy the incurable ill.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I had,” said he, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

BARD-1/RNA Polymerase-2 holoenzyme may sense DNA damage; inhibition by CSTF1 may prevent erroneous polyadenylation of such RNAs.

(BRCA1 Associated RING Domain Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

I confess, said he, that any theories which I had formed from the newspaper reports were entirely erroneous.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions, you departed for the hotel, and I was left alone.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Event in which measurement functions produce erroneous results or the image display is corrupted.

(Image Display Error Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the "Follies."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)