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1. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention.
Synonyms
- misestimation
- slip
- betise
- mix-up
- skip
- bloomer
- distortion
- balls-up
- slip-up
- mess-up
- misreckoning
- oversight
- nonachievement
- folly
- nonaccomplishment
- boo-boo
- ballup
- miscalculation
- blooper
- renege
- confusion
- stupidity
- smear
- fault
- foul-up
- offside
- lapse
- boner
- smirch
- fuckup
- incursion
- flub
- parapraxis
- cockup
- botch
- stain
- foolishness
- blunder
- revoke
- blot
- spot
- bungle
- omission
- pratfall
- miscue
- imbecility
Antonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)
Rhymes with Error
- standard-bearer
- stretcher-bearer
- preparer
- starer
- wearer
- there're
- sherrer
- sharer
- scherrer
- scharer
- rarer
- mehrer
- lehrer
- kehrer
- harer
- ferrer
- fairer
- carer
- bearer
How do you pronounce error?
Pronounce error as ˈɛrər.
US - How to pronounce error in American English
UK - How to pronounce error in British English
Sentences with error
1. Noun, singular or mass
It has an increased risk for error so use it only if you have few employees.
2. Adjective
For many users, the installation process for new drivers was error prone and frustrating.
Quotes about error
1. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale Turner
2. Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
- Louis Aragon
3. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
2. trial-and-error
adjective. trying out various means or theories until error is satisfactorily reduced or eliminated.
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4. trial-and-error
adjective. relating to solving problems by experience rather than theory.
Antonyms
5. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] inadvertent incorrectness.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)
6. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] a misconception resulting from incorrect information.
Synonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)
7. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed.
Synonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)
8. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] departure from what is ethically acceptable.
Synonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)
9. error
noun. ['ˈɛrɝ'] part of a statement that is not correct.
Antonyms
Etymology
- errour (Middle English (1100-1500))
- error (Latin)