Wrongly

Definition

wrong /rɒŋ; US rↄ:ŋ/ adj ၁။ မွားေသာ။ မမွန္ေသာ။ 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) (အထင္အျမင္ အယူအဆ) မွား[ေသာ]၊ လြဲ[ေသာ]။ 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။ လြဲေခ်ာ္ေသာ။ မွားေသာ။ 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) ခြၽတ္ယြင္းေန [ေသာ]။ တစ္ခုခုျဖစ္ေန[ေသာ]။ ေဖာက္ေန[ေသာ]။ 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) ျပႆနာ ရိွ[ေသာ]၊ ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ 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) မမွန္ကန္[ေသာ]။ မေလ်ာ္ကန္[ေသာ]။ 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 ) အမွားမွားအယြင္းယြင္း။ တလြဲတေခ်ာ္။ You guessed wrong. ❍ You've spelt my name wrong. ❍ He played the tune all wrong. Compare WRONGLY n ၁။ [U] အမွား။ မွားျခင္း။ 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 ) မမွန္ကန္မႈ။ မေလ်ာ္ကန္မႈ။ မတရားမႈ။ 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) မတရားသျဖင့္ ခံရသည္။ a wronged wife ❍ He felt deeply wronged by the allegations. ❏ from/ on the wrong side of the tracks [ IDM ] ( US ) အဆင့္အတန္းနိမ့္က်ေသာ ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သည္။ ❏ get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick [ IDM ] ( infml ) တလြဲၾကားသည္။ ေျပာင္းျပန္ထင္သည္။ You've got the wrong end of the stick — he doesn't owe me money, I owe him! ❏ get sb wrong [ IDM ] ( infml ) တလြဲထင္သည္။ အထင္လြဲ သည္။ Please don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing you. ❏ go wrong [ IDM ] ၁။ မွားသည္။ လြဲေခ်ာ္သည္။ 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။ (စက္) ခြၽတ္ယြင္းသည္၊ ပ်က္သည္၊ ေဖာက္သည္။ The car radio has gone wrong again. ၃။ အခက္ႀကံဳသည္။ ျပႆနာတက္သည္။ 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 ] တာဝန္ရိွသည္။ အျပစ္ရိွသည္။ He admitted that he was in the wrong. ❏ wrong-foot v ( Brit ) (esp passive) အခက္ႀကံဳသည္။ ေခြၽးျပန္သည္။ 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 ေခါင္းမသံုးေသာ။ ဦးေႏွာက္ မပါေသာ။ wrong-headed ideas. ❏ wrongly adv (used esp before a past participle or a v ) အမွားမွားအယြင္းယြင္း။ အလြဲလြဲအေခ်ာ္ေခ်ာ္။ မမွန္မကန္။ 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]

Examples

1. You don’t look well. Is anything wrong?
2. One look at her face told us that something was terribly wrong.
3. I checked the engine
4. but I couldn’t find anything wrong.
5. [wrong with] : If there’s something wrong with it
6. take it back to the shop.
7. We must have gone the wrong way.
8. The wrong answer
9. I thought it’d only take a few minutes
10. but I was wrong.
11. Think about this carefully – you don’t want to make the wrong decision.
12. [wrong that] : The court decided it was wrong that such actions should go unpunished.
13. [morally wrong] : They believe that making money out of prisons is morally wrong.
14. It’s the wrong place for such a big industrial development.
15. [wrong for] : The colours just look wrong for a room this size.