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erroneous

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
erroneous /ɪˈrəʊnɪəs, ɛ-/

▶adjective wrong; incorrect.

– derivatives
erroneously adverb,
erroneousness noun.

– origin ME: from L. erroneus (from erro(n-) ‘vagabond’, from errare ‘to stray, err’) + -ous.

'erroneous' also found in these Oxford entries:

collimate - ex post facto - helpmate - hypercorrection - invalid - invalidate - mangabey - misprision - paddymelon - stylus - weigh

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