Thesaurus:error
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- aberration
- barbarism
- bloomer (dated)
- blooper
- blunder
- boner (dated slang)
- boo-boo
- break (obsolete slang)
- clanger
- cock-up (vulgar)
- error
- fault
- faux pas
- floater (slang)
- flub
- fluff
- fuckup (vulgar)
- gaffe
- goof
- howler
- inaccuracy
- lapse
- lapsus
- mess-up (colloquial)
- misstep
- mistake
- oopsy (childish)
- screwup [⇒ thesaurus] (colloquial)
- slip
- slip-up
- slipup
- stumble
- thinko
- wrength
- solecism
- erroneity
Hyponyms
[edit]- incorrect argument [⇒ thesaurus]
- misargument
- miscalculation
- misconception
- misspelling
- mispronunciation
- misstatement
- scanno
- spello
- thinko
- typo
Various
[edit]See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:defect
- Category:English terms prefixed with mis-
- Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error
- Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/27 § error
Further reading
[edit]- “495. error” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “error” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.