wrong-headed

wrong /rɒŋ; US rↄ:ŋ/ adj

၁။ မှားသော။ မမှန်သော။ He did the sum but got the wrong answer/got the answer wrong. ❍ Her estimate of the cost was completely wrong.
၂။ ~ (about sth/sb); ~ (to do sth) (အထင်အမြင် အယူအဆ) မှား[သော]၊ လွဲ[သော]။ Events have proved that she was wrong/have proved her wrong. ❍ You were wrong about him; he's not an American after all. ❍ We were wrong to assume that she'd agree. ❍ You think you've beaten me, but that's where you're wrong. ❍ Thousands of satisfied customers can't be wrong.
၃။ လွဲချော်သော။ မှားသော။ You're folding it the wrong way. ❍ We discovered that we were on the wrong train. ❍ The police arrested the wrong woman. ❍ We came the wrong way/took a wrong turning. ❍ I'm afraid you've got the wrong number (ie on the telephone). ❍ You're holding the camera the wrong way up/round. ❍ He's the wrong person for the job. ❍ I realized that I had said the wrong thing when I saw her reaction.
၄။ ~ (with sb/sth) (က) ချွတ်ယွင်းနေ [သော]။ တစ်ခုခုဖြစ်နေ[သော]။ ဖောက်နေ[သော]။ What's wrong with the engine? It's making an awful noise. ❍ There's something wrong with my left eye — I can't see properly. ❍ The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me.
(ခ) ပြဿနာ ရှိ[သော]၊ ဖြစ်[သော]။ Is anything wrong? You look worried. ❍ There's nothing wrong with our tax system; why change it? ❍ What's wrong with telling the truth? (ie How can it be criticized?)
၅။ ~ (of/for sb) (to do sth) မမှန်ကန်[သော]။ မလျော်ကန်[သော]။ It is (morally) wrong to steal. ❍ You were wrong/It was wrong of you to take her bike without permission. ❍ It is quite wrong for politicians to accept gifts from business people. ❍ He told me he had done nothing wrong. Compare RIGHT adj
adv (used after vs ) အမှားမှားအယွင်းယွင်း။ တလွဲတချော်။ You guessed wrong. ❍ You've spelt my name wrong. ❍ He played the tune all wrong. Compare WRONGLY
n
၁။ [U] အမှား။ မှားခြင်း။ He doesn't know the difference between right and wrong. ❍ She could do no wrong in the opinion of her devoted followers.
၂။ [C] (fml ) မမှန်ကန်မှု။ မလျော်ကန်မှု။ မတရားမှု။ They have done us a great wrong. ❍ She complained of the wrongs she had suffered. ❍ He is determined to right the wrongs done to his family.
v (fml ) (esp passive) မတရားသဖြင့် ခံရသည်။ a wronged wife ❍ He felt deeply wronged by the allegations.
❏ from/ on the wrong side of the tracks [IDM ] (US ) အဆင့်အတန်းနိမ့်ကျသော ရပ်ကွက်တွင် နေထိုင်သည်။
❏ get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick [IDM ] (infml ) တလွဲကြားသည်။ ပြောင်းပြန်ထင်သည်။ You've got the wrong end of the stick — he doesn't owe me money, I owe him!
❏ get sb wrong [IDM ] (infml ) တလွဲထင်သည်။ အထင်လွဲ သည်။ Please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing you.
❏ go wrong [IDM ]
၁။ မှားသည်။ လွဲချော်သည်။ If you read the instructions, you'll see where you went wrong. ❍ You can't go wrong with a book token (ie It is always an acceptable gift).
၂။ (စက်) ချွတ်ယွင်းသည်၊ ပျက်သည်၊ ဖောက်သည်။ The car radio has gone wrong again.
၃။ အခက်ကြုံသည်။ ပြဿနာတက်သည်။ Their marriage started to go wrong when he got a job abroad. ❍ The experiment went disastrously wrong (ie had unexpected and very unpleasant results).
❏ in the wrong [IDM ] တာဝန်ရှိသည်။ အပြစ်ရှိသည်။ He admitted that he was in the wrong.
❏ wrong-foot v (Brit ) (esp passive) အခက်ကြုံသည်။ ချွေးပြန်သည်။ Her cleverly disguised lob completely wrong-footed her opponent. ❍ I was wrong-footed by the interviewer's next question.
❏ wrongful /-fl/ adj (esp law ) မတရား။ He sued his employer for wrongful dismissal/the police for wrongful arrest. wrongfully /-fǝli/ adv : be wrongfully convicted/imprisoned.
❏ wrong-headed adj ခေါင်းမသုံးသော။ ဦးနှောက် မပါသော။ wrong-headed ideas.
❏ wrongly adv (used esp before a past participle or a v ) အမှားမှားအယွင်းယွင်း။ အလွဲလွဲအချော်ချော်။ မမှန်မကန်။ wrongly spelt/labelled/translated ❍ a wrongly addressed parcel ❍ wrongly accused/convicted ❍ I was wrongly informed that I had failed the examination. ❍ He imagines, (quite) wrongly, that she loves him. ❍ Rightly or wrongly, she refused to accept the offer (ie I do not know whether she was right or wrong to do so). wrongness n [U]