googly
wrong 'un
bosie
bosie ball | a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way |
| wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
tort
civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
wrong
legal injury
damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
blue-headed vireo
Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
| bone-headed dinosaur | bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns |
| black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
rubber boa
tow-headed snake
Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America, looks and feels like rubber with tail and head of similar shape |
acanthocephalan
spiny-headed worm | any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
white-headed stilt
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus | stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck |
gaffsail
gaff-headed sail | a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
| wrong wrongfulness | that which is contrary to the principles of justice or law, he feels that you are in the wrong |
conscience
scruples
moral sense
sense of right and wrong | motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions |
round-headed leek
Allium sphaerocephalum | Old World leek with a spherical bulb |
| wrong | treat unjustly, do wrong to |
fail
go wrong
miscarry | be unsuccessful, Where do today's public schools fail?, The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably |
faulty
incorrect
wrong | characterized by errors, not agreeing with a model or not following established rules, he submitted a faulty report, an incorrect transcription, the wrong side of the road |
improper
wrong | not appropriate for a purpose or occasion, said all the wrong things |
bald
bald-headed
bald-pated | lacking hair on all or most of the scalp, a bald pate, a bald-headed gentleman |
| shock-headed | having a shock (or untidy mass) of hair, shock-headed teenagers |
broad-headed
roundheaded
short-headed | having a brachycephalic head |
| bullet-headed | having a small round head |
| long-headed | having a dolichocephalic head |
addled
befuddled muddled
muzzy
woolly
wooly
woolly-headed
wooly-minded | confused and vague, used especially of thinking, muddleheaded ideas, your addled little brain, woolly thinking, woolly-headed ideas |
a blockheaded
boneheaded
duncical
duncish
fatheaded
loggerheaded
thick
thickheaded
thick-skulled
wooden-headed | (used informally) stupid |
| mop-headed | (of trees) having a bushy top without a leader, mop-headed cabbage palms |
incorrect
wrong | not correct, not in conformity with fact or truth, an incorrect calculation, the report in the paper is wrong, your information is wrong, the clock showed the wrong time, found themselves on the wrong road, based on the wrong assumptions |
| wrong | based on or acting or judging in error, it is wrong to think that way |
amiss(p)
awry(p)
haywire
wrong(p) | not functioning properly, something is amiss, has gone completely haywire, something is wrong with the engine |
| headed | having a head of a specified kind or anything that serves as a head, often used in combination, headed bolts, three-headed Cerberus, a cool-headed fighter pilot |
| burr-headed | having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly) |
| large-headed | having a large head |
| headed | having a heading or caption, a headed column, headed notepaper |
| headed | of leafy vegetables, having formed into a head, headed cabbages |
a grey
gray
grey-haired
gray-haired
grey-headed
gray-headed
grizzly
hoar
hoary
white-haired | showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair, whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge, nodded his hoary head |
ill-timed
unseasonable
untimely
wrong | badly timed, an ill-timed intervention, you think my intrusion unseasonable, an untimely remark, it was the wrong moment for a joke |
| headed | having a heading or course in a certain direction, westward headed wagons |
| wrong | used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward, socks worn wrong side out |
| wrong incorrect | not in accord with established usage or procedure, the wrong medicine, the wrong way to shuck clams, it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts |
conceited
egotistic
egotistical
self-conceited
swollen
swollen-headed
vain | characteristic of false pride, having an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a conceited fool, an attitude of self-conceited arrogance, an egotistical disregard of others, so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty, growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary, vain about her clothes |
healthy
intelligent
levelheaded
level-headed
sound | exercising or showing good judgment, healthy scepticism, a healthy fear of rattlesnakes, the healthy attitude of French laws, healthy relations between labor and management, an intelligent solution, a sound approach to the problem, sound advice, no sound explanation for his decision |
| wrong | contrary to conscience or morality or law, it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor, cheating is wrong, it is wrong to lie |
airheaded
dizzy
empty-headed
featherbrained
giddy
light-headed
lightheaded
silly | lacking seriousness, given to frivolity, a dizzy blonde, light-headed teenagers, silly giggles |
bullheaded
bullet-headed
pigheaded | obstinate and stupid |
wrong-side-out(p)
inside-out(p) | with the inside surface on the outside |
faint
light
swooning
light-headed
lightheaded | weak and likely to lose consciousness, suddenly felt faint from the pain, was sick and faint from hunger, felt light in the head, a swooning fit, light-headed with wine, light-headed from lack of sleep |
incorrectly wrongly
wrong | in an inaccurate manner, he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly, she guessed wrong |