Word Meanings - ERROR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value

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The difference between the approximate result and the true result; -- used particularly in the rule of double position. The difference between an observed value and the true value of a quantity. The difference between the observed value of a quantity and that which is taken or computed to be the true value; -- sometimes called residual error. (more info) 1. A wandering; a roving or irregular course. The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson. 2. A wandering or deviation from the right course or standard; irregularity; mistake; inaccuracy; something made wrong or left wrong; as, an error in writing or in printing; a clerical error. 3. A departing or deviation from the truth; falsity; false notion; wrong opinion; mistake; misapprehension. Herror, though his candor remained unimpaired. Bancroft. 4. A moral offense; violation of duty; a sin or transgression; iniquity; fault. Ps. xix. 12.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ERROR)

• Blunder
• Error
• mistake
• misunderstanding
• fault
• oversight
• inaccuracy
• delusion
• slip
• Fallacy
• Sophistry
• error
• blunder
• misconception
• bugbear
• fiction
• chimera
• Falsehood
• Untruth
• fallacy
• sophistry
• deception
• forgery
• lie
• cheat
• Fault
• Defect
• imperfection
• flaw
• misdeed
• failure
• omission
• want
• drawback
• Illusion
• Dream
• mockery
• hallucination
• phantasm
• vision
• myth
• false show

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ERROR)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse

Related words: (words related to ERROR)

• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• PHANTASM
  1. An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream. They be but phantasms or apparitions. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A mental image or representation of
• BUGBEAR
  To alarm with idle phantoms.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• UNDECEIVE
  To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South.
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• SELF-DELUSION
  The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.