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Word Meanings - MISAPPLICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

Related words: (words related to MISAPPLICATION)

  • WRONGOUS
    Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
  • WRONG
    imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
  • WRONGLESS
    Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
  • WRONGDOING
    Evil or wicked behavior or action.
  • WRONGFUL
    Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
  • WRONGHEAD
    A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
  • APPLICATION
    1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
  • WRONG-TIMED
    Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
  • WRONGNESS
    The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
  • WRONGDOER
    One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
  • WRONGLY
    In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
  • WRONGHEADED
    Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
  • WRONGER
    One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • AWRONG
    Wrongly. Ford.
  • MISAPPLICATION
    A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
  • SELF-WRONG
    Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.
  • INAPPLICATION
    Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.

 

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