Antonyms for error
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : er-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛr ər |
Definition of error
Origin :- also, through 18c., errour, c.1300, from Old French error "mistake, flaw, defect, heresy," from Latin errorem (nominative error) "a wandering, straying, mistake," from errare "to wander" (see err).
- Words for "error" in most Indo-European languages originally meant "wander, go astray" (but cf. Irish dearmad "error," from dermat "a forgetting").
- noun mistake; wrong
- Did all the error and sorrow of her life pass distinctly before her?
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- I fear you may be led unwittingly into error by your associates.
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- Error in speculative doctrine not impious - nor knowledge pious.
- Extract from : « A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III] » by Benedict of Spinoza
- It is natural to goodness and innocence, but not the less is the error a disastrous one.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- There was nothing in her behaviour to indicate a consciousness of error from her sphere.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- There is a limit to the best man's experience; a margin of error in the best man's judgment.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- Her letter to me admitted her error, and confessed her unhappiness; but there was no remedy.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- But the error was solely with the boy; for what was innocence in her was but passion in him.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He, also, took overheed to what he was about, and so he fell into Will Scarlet's error.
- Extract from : « The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood » by Howard Pyle
- What a terrible proof of error they offered under the radiant sky!
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for error
- absurdity
- bad job
- blunder
- boner
- boo-boo
- delinquency
- delusion
- deviation
- erratum
- failure
- fall
- fallacy
- falsehood
- falsity
- fault
- faux pas
- flaw
- glitch
- goof
- howler
- inaccuracy
- lapse
- misapprehension
- misbelief
- miscalculation
- misconception
- miscue
- misdeed
- misjudgment
- mismanagement
- miss
- misstep
- misunderstanding
- offense
- omission
- oversight
- screamer
- screw-up
- sin
- slight
- slip
- slipup
- solecism
- stumble
- transgression
- trespass
- untruth
- wrongdoing
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