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adjective
- 1. having or showing bad judgement; misguided: "this approach is both wrong-headed and naive"
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based on ideas or judgments that are not suitable for a particular situation: He admitted that the party had followed policies now considered wrongheaded. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Stupid and silly. absurdity. absurdly. adolescent. against your better judgment idiom. dopey. dopily. dorky. dottiness. dotty. imprudently.
1. : stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles. wrongheaded in his opinions. 2. : marked by perversity : contrary to sound judgment. wrongheaded advice. wrongheadedly adverb. wrongheadedness noun. Examples of wrongheaded in a Sentence. a wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.
based on ideas or judgments that are not suitable for a particular situation: He admitted that the party had followed policies now considered wrongheaded. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Stupid and silly. absurd. absurdity. absurdly. adolescent. against your better judgmentidiom.
Wrong-headed definition: wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.. See examples of WRONG-HEADED used in a sentence.
If you describe someone as wrong-headed, you mean that although they act in a determined way, their actions and ideas are based on wrong judgments.
Definition of wrong-headed adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Mistaken or misguided, often stubbornly so: a wrong-headed approach to the problem; a well-meaning but wrong-headed reformer.
