word-vault/dist/data/cards/in/incorrect.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "incorrect",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not accurate or true",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "incorrect information/spelling"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His version of what happened is incorrect."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a factually incorrect statement"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's technically incorrect to talk about bats ‘hearing’ things."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of the figures were incorrect."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Your assumptions about my private life are incorrect."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "consider something"],
                "adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "entirely"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "speaking or behaving in a way that does not follow the accepted standards or rules",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "prove", "consider something"],
                "adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "entirely"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnkəˈrekt/",
                "audio": "in/incorrect/incorrect__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnkəˈrekt/",
                "audio": "in/incorrect/incorrect__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin incorrectus, from in- ‘not’ + correctus ‘made straight, amended’ (from the verb corrigere, from cor- ‘together’ + regere ‘guide’). Originally in the general sense ‘uncorrected’, the word was later applied specifically to a book containing many errors because it had not been corrected for the press; hence sense (2) (late 17th cent.)."
}