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- Dictionaryerr/əː/
verb
- 1. be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake: formal "the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible" Similar Opposite
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to make a mistake or to do something wrong: He erred in agreeing to her appointment to the position. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Making mistakes. balls (something) up. blunderingly. bodge. making. misdiagnose. misdiagnosis. misdirection. misremember. misrender. misstate. mistake. mistranscribe. stumblingly.
The meaning of ERR is to make a mistake. How to use err in a sentence. Is it human to err?
3 meanings: 1. to make a mistake; be incorrect 2. to stray from the right course or accepted standards; sin 3. to act with.... Click for more definitions.
Err definition: to go astray in thought or belief; be mistaken; be incorrect.. See examples of ERR used in a sentence.
ERR definition: to make a mistake or do something that is wrong. Learn more.
When you err, you make a mistake or do something wrong. When a newspaper reporter errs in a printed story, the paper often prints a correction the next day. By itself, err, which shares a Latin root with error, is a formal way to say "mess up."
From Middle English erren, from Old French errer (“to wander, err, mistake”), from Latin errō (“wander, stray, err, mistake”, verb ), from Proto-Indo-European *ares- (“to be angry, lose one's temper”).
[no object] formal. : to make a mistake. I may have erred in my calculations. The court erred in refusing to allow bail. To err is human. [=it is normal for people to make mistakes] err on the side of.
Definition of err verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to be mistaken or incorrect; make an error: Banks rarely err in computing your balance. Idioms. to err on the side of, [ ~ + object] to act or behave in a certain way, and not its opposite: It is better to err on the side of punctuality (= It is better to be early than late).
