Words / B2

ink-uh-REKTL-ee/ˌɪnkəˈrektli/

Incorrectly means in a wrong way: spelled incorrectly; incorrectly labelled. Wrongly is close; falsely can mean dishonest. Candidates who bubbled incorrectly lost a paper. Correctly is the opposite. Do not use incorrectly if you mean unfairly.

Meaning

In a wrong way; not correctly.

Examples

• “Candidates who bubbled the candidate number incorrectly lost a paper.”
• “The axis was labelled incorrectly, which is the graph sense.”

Good to know

spell / label / answer incorrectly. Close: wrongly. Opposite: correctly. Papers and labs. Error, not injustice.

Near in meaning

wrongly

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