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Synonyms of error in English:

error


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noun

1‘the common error of calling schizophrenia a split personality’

SYNONYMS
mistake, fallacy, misconception, delusion
inaccuracy, miscalculation, misreckoning
blunder, fault, flaw, oversight
misprint, literal, erratum, misinterpretation, misreading
informal slip-up, boo-boo, howler, boner, fail
British informal boob, bloomer

Phrases

    in error

    ‘£86 million of tax was collected in error’


    SYNONYMS
    wrongly, by mistake, mistakenly, incorrectly, inappropriately, misguidedly
    accidentally, by accident, inadvertently, unintentionally, unwittingly, unknowingly, unconsciously, by chance
    ANTONYMS

    correctly, intentionally