error

Nouns

  • (n) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
    • he made a bad mistake
    • she was quick to point out my errors
    • I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults
    fault, mistake,
  • (n) inadvertent incorrectness erroneousness,
  • (n) a misconception resulting from incorrect information erroneous belief,
  • (n) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed misplay,
  • (n) departure from what is ethically acceptable wrongdoing,
  • (n) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer computer error,
  • (n) part of a statement that is not correct
    • the book was full of errors
    mistake,

Synonyms

fault mistake erroneousness erroneous belief misplay wrongdoing computer error

Words of close approximity

error correction code errorless error-prone