Basic 850: An Online Wordbook
19 March, 2005
  Wrong
is the opposite of right. It is one of the 50 words for opposite qualities. When something or someone has an error, the thing or the person is wrong.

Wrongdoer is someone who does
wrong.

Wrongdoing is act which is wrong. Sometimes, the short word wrong itself is used for wrongdoing in statements like this: "Two wrongs don't make a right."

Wrongheaded is for someone who has a wrong idea in the head.

Wrongheadedly is sometimes used in statements like this: "A number of teachers, without enough knowledge of Basic English, were wrongheadedly against it."
 


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This is a guide, in process of making, to the 850 English words and other words made by joining them together, based on C. K. Ogden's Basic English. The example statements put between "hook-marks," if they are not specially noted, are from Ogden's book The Basic Words.

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