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error

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of error

1 an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy

a report on the earthquake contained several unfortunate errors

Synonyms of error

blunder, bobble, boob [British], boo-boo, brick, clanger [British], clinker, fault, flub, fluff, fumble, gaff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, oversight, screwup, slip, slipup, stumble, trip

Words Related to error

bloomer, blooper, boner, howler, pratfall

misapprehension, miscalculation, miscomprehension, misconception, misconstruction, miscue, misdescription, misimpression, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misstatement, misunderstanding

Near Antonyms of error

accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, strictness

inerrancy, infallibility, perfection

2 a breaking of a moral or legal code

we have all committed errors in our lives and strayed from the path of righteousness

Synonyms of error

breach, crime, debt, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, offense (or offence), sin, transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoing

Words Related to error

bias crime, hate crime

felony, misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance

fault, foible, peccadillo

break, infringement

immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, sinfulness, vice, wickedness

corruption, debauchery, depravity, licentiousness

abuse, criminality, illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulness

descent, downfall, fall

Near Antonyms of error

blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocence, irreproachability

goodness, morality, righteousness, virtue, virtuousness

Antonyms of error

3 a false idea or belief

the story only spread the error by repeating the misinterpreted statistics

Synonyms of error

delusion, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, hallucination, illusion, misbelief, misconception, myth, old wives' tale, untruth

Words Related to error

fiction, pretense (or pretence)

distortion, inaccuracy, misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misperception, misunderstanding

misinformation, misknowledge, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

sophism, sophistry

fib, half-truth, lie, story, tale

Antonyms of error

Synonym Discussion of error

error, mistake, blunder, slip, lapse mean a departure from what is true, right, or proper. error suggests the existence of a standard or guide and a straying from the right course through failure to make effective use of this.

- procedural errors

mistake implies misconception or inadvertence and usually expresses less criticism than error.

- dialed the wrong number by mistake

blunder regularly imputes stupidity or ignorance as a cause and connotes some degree of blame.

- diplomatic blunders

slip stresses inadvertence or accident and applies especially to trivial but embarrassing mistakes.

- a slip of the tongue

lapse stresses forgetfulness, weakness, or inattention as a cause.

- a lapse in judgment

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